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

The Pike-purs and eke þe pale drede [VII. 33. [not the pickpurse.]] The smyler wiþe þe knyf vnder þe cloke [VII. 34.] The Shepen birneinge with þe blake smoke 2000 The Treson of þe Morþeringe in þe bedde The Open werre wiþ wondes all be-bledde Contek wiþ blody knyfe and scharpe manace [VII. 34.] All fful of schrikeinge was þat sor place 2004 The sleere of himself ȝit sawe .I. þere His herte haþ baþed al his here The naile y-dryue in þe schode on nyht The colde deþe wiþ mouþe gapeand vpriht 2008 A mides of þe temple satte Mischaunce ['Amyddes of the' place sat 'la virtù tristissima.' VII. 34.] With discomford and sori countenaunce Ȝit sauhe .I. wodenes lawheynge in his rage [VII. 35.] Armed compleinte outehees and fires outrage ['La Morte armata vide e lo stupore.' VII. 35.] The karoigne in þe buske wiþ þrote. ycorue A. þousand ysleine and not of qualme ystorue The terant wiþe preie be for þrafte The towne destroiede. þer was no þinge laft [VII. 36.] 2016 Ȝete sawe .I. bernte þe schippes hoppesters ['Le navi bellatrici.' VII. 37. Neither Boccaccio, nor yet his prototype Statius, speaks of any ships as burnt, but merely as trophies.] The hunte strangeld wiþ þe wilde beres The sowe freteynge þe childe riht in þe Cradell The Coke. Iscalded for al his longe ladell 2020 Nouht was forȝeten be þenfortune of Marte The Carte ouerriden wiþ his Carte [VII. 37.] Vnder þe whele ful lowe he laie a doune [folio 26a] There were also of Martis diuisioune 2024 The barboure and þe bocher and þe smithe That forgeþ scharpe swerdes on his stiþe And al aboue depeinted in a toure Sauhe .I. conqueste sit in grete honoure 2028 Wiþ þe scharpe swerde ouere his hede Hangeinge be a subtile twine þrede Depeinted was þe slawhter of Iulius Of grete Nero and of Anthonius 2032 Al be þat ilke time þei weren vnborne
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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1867-1879.

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