The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 373] 
                                  
                                  For we ben out of here correccioun
                                
                                  Thay haue of vs no iurediccioun
                                
                                  Ne neuer schul to terme of alle her lyues
                                
                                  Peter so been þe wommen of þe styues
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                                  Thay beþ I-put out of oure cures
                                
                                  Pees with meschaunce and wiþ mesauentures
                                
                                  Þus sayd our host and let him telle his tale /
                                
                                  Now telleþ forþ al þough þe sompnour gale
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                                  Ne spareþ nought myn owne maister deere
                                
                                  Þis false þeef þe sompnour quoþ þe frere ./
                                
                                  Had alway bawdes redy to his hond
                                
                                  As eny hauk to lure in engelond
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                                  Þat told him al þe secre þat þay knewe
                                
                                  For here acqueintaunce was not come of newe
                                
                                  Þay were his approwours priuely
                                
                                  He took himself a gret profyt þer by
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                                  His maister knew nat alway what he wan
                                
                                  wiþoute maundement/ a lewed man
                                
                                  He couþe sompne vp peyne of cristes curs
                                
                                  And þay were glad to fille wel his purs ./
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                                  And make him grete festis atte nale / [folio 104a] 
                                
                                  And right as Iudas hadde purses smale /
                                
                                  And was a theef. right such a þeef was he
                                
                                  his maister had not half his duete
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                                  he was if I schal ȝiue him his laude .
                                
                                  A þeef a sompnour and eek a baude .
                                
                                  And he had wenches at his retenue
                                
                                  That wheþir þat sir Robert or sir hughe
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                                  Or Iak or Rauf or who-so þat it were
                                
                                  That lay by hem þay told it in his eere
                                
                                  Thus was þe wenche and he of oon assent
                                
                                  And he wold fecche a feyned maundement
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                                  And sompne hem to chapitre boþe tuo
                                
                                  And pyle þe man and let þe wenche go
                                
                                  Than wold he sayn I schal frend for þy sake
                                
                                  Don strike þe out of oure lettres blake

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 233
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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