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

                                
                                     [6-text p 378] 
                                  
                                  And speke renably . and as fair and wel
                                
                                  As to þe Phitonissa dede Samuel
                                
                                  And ȝit wol somme say . it was not he
                                
                                  I do no fors . of ȝour diuinite
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                                  But oon þing warne I þe I wol not iape.
                                
                                  Þou wilt algates wite how we ben schape.
                                
                                  Thow schalt her afterward my broþer deere
                                
                                  Com wher þe nedith no þing for to leere
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                                  For thou schalt by þin oughn experience
                                
                                  Conne in a chayer reden of þis sentence
                                
                                  Bet þan virgile whils he was on lyue /
                                
                                  Or Daunt also / now let vs ryde blyue
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                                  For I wol holde company with þe
                                
                                  Til it be so þat þou forsake me
                                
                                  Nay quod þe sompnour þat schal nought betyde
                                
                                  I am a ȝiman þat knowen is ful wyde
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                                  My trouþe wol I hold as in þis caas
                                
                                  For þough þou be þe deuyl Sathanas
                                
                                  My trouþe wol I holde . to þe my broþer
                                
                                  As I am swore . and ech of vs to oþer
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                                  For to be trewe breþeren in þis caas
                                
                                  For boþe we goon abouten oure purchas
                                
                                  Tak þou þi part and þat men wil þe ȝyuen
                                
                                  And I schal myn þus may we boþe lyuen
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                                  And if eny of us . haue more þan oþer
                                
                                  Let him be trewe . and part it wiþ his broþer
                                
                                  I graunte quod þe deuel by my fay /
                                
                                  And wiþ þat word þay riden forth her way
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                                  And right at þentryng of a townes ende /
                                
                                  To which þis sompnour schope him for to wende
                                
                                  Thay seigh a cart that chargid was with hay [folio 106b] 
                                
                                  which þat a carter drof forþ in his way /
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                                  Deep was þe way for which þe carte stood
                                
                                  This carter smoot and cryde as he wer wood
                                
                                  hayt . brok . hayt . scot . / what spare ȝe for þe stoones
                                
                                  Þe fend quod he . ȝow fech body and bones

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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 238
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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