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

                                
                                     [6-text p 374] 
                                  
                                  The þar no more as in þis cas trauayle
                                
                                  I am þy frend þer I þe may avayle
                                
                                  Certeynly he knew of bribours mo
                                
                                  Than possible is to telle in ȝeres tuo
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                                  For in þis world nys dogge for þe bowe
                                
                                  Þat can an hurt deer from an hol y-knowe
                                
                                  Bet þan þis sompnour knew a leccheour
                                
                                  Or auoutier or ellis a paramour
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                                  And for þat was þe fruyt of al his rent
                                
                                  Therfore þer on he set al his entent
                                
                                  And so bifel þat oones on a day
                                
                                  This sompnour euer wayting on his pray
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                                  Rod forth to sompne a widew and old ribibe
                                
                                  Feynyng a cause for he wolde bribe
                                
                                  And happed þat he say bifore him ryde
                                
                                  A gay ȝeman vnder a forest syde
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                                  A bow he bar and arwes bright and kene
                                
                                  He had vpon a courtepy of grene
                                
                                  An hat vpon his heed wiþ frenges blake
                                
                                  Sir quod þis sompnour heyl and wel ouertake
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                                  welcome quod he and euery good felawe
                                
                                  whider ridestow vnder þis grene schawe
                                
                                  Sayde þis ȝiman wiltow fer to day [folio 104b] 
                                
                                  This sompnour answerd and sayde nay
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                                  Her faste by quod he is myn entent
                                
                                  To ryden for to reysen vp a rent
                                
                                  That longith to my lordes duete
                                
                                  Artow þan a bayely quod he /
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                                  He durste not for verray filth and schame
                                
                                  Sayn þat he was a sompnour for þe name
                                
                                  De par dieux quod þe ȝeman lieue broþer
                                
                                  Thou art a bayly . and I am another
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                                  I am vnknowen as in þis contre
                                
                                  Of þin acqueintance I wol praye þe
                                
                                  And eek of broþerheed it ȝow lest
                                
                                  I haue gold and siluer in my chest

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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 234
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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