The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  And efteward it happed him percas
                                
                                  To take þe botel þer-in þe poyson was
                                
                                  And drange and ȝaue his felawe drinke also
                                
                                  For whiche anone þei storuen boþe tuo
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                                  Bott certes .I. suppose þat Aucyenne
                                
                                  Wrote neuer in no canon ne in no fenne
                                
                                  No wonder sorwes of enpoysonynge.
                                
                                  Thus hadde þes wriches tuo here endeinge [folio 180a] 
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                                  Thus ended buen þes homicides tuo.
                                
                                  And eke þe false empoysonere also
                                
                                  O cursede sinne ful of cursednesse
                                
                                  O traitoures homicideres o wikkednesse
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                                  O . glotony . o luxurye o hasardye
                                
                                  Þou blasphemer of crist wiþ velanye
                                
                                  And oþes grete of vsage and of pride
                                
                                  Alas mankinde howe may it betide
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                                  Thereto þine Creatour whiche þat þe wrouht
                                
                                  And wiþ his precious blode þe bouhte
                                
                                  Thowe ert so fals and so vnkinde alas
                                
                                  Nowe good men god for-ȝeue ȝowe ȝoure trespas
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                                  And war ȝowe fro þe sinne of Auarice
                                
                                  Myne holy pardon may ȝow al warissche
                                
                                  So þat ȝe ofer nobles oþer sterlinges
                                
                                  Oþere elles siluer spones broches or ringes
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                                  Boweþ ȝowre heued vnder þis holy bulles
                                
                                  Commeþ vpe ȝe wives and offer ȝoure wolles
                                
                                  Ȝoure name .I. entre here in my rolle anone
                                
                                  In-to þe blisse of heuen schole ȝe gone
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                                  .I. ȝowe assoile be myne hihe pouere
                                
                                  Ȝe þat wollen offere as clene and eke as clere
                                
                                  As ȝe weer borne and sires lo þus .I. preche
                                
                                  And ihesu crist þat is oure sowles leche
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                                  So graunt ȝowe his pardon to receyve
                                
                                  For þat is best .I. wil ȝowe nouht deceyve
                                
                                  Bot sires o worde for-gat .I. in my tale
                                
                                  .I. haue Reliques and pardon in my male

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 453
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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