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

                                
                                     [6-text p 380] 
                                  
                                  This sompnour clapped at þe widowes gate
                                
                                  Com out quod he þou olde viritrate
                                
                                  I trowe þou hast som frere or prest wiþ þe
                                
                                  who clappith þer sayd þis widow benedicite
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                                  God saue ȝow sir . what is ȝour swete wille
                                
                                  I haue quod he . a somonaunce of a bille
                                
                                  vp payne of cursyng loke þat þou be
                                
                                  To morwe biforn our erchedeknes kne
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                                  To answer to þe court of certeyn þinges
                                
                                  Now quod sche Ihū crist and king of kinges
                                
                                  So wisly helpe me as I ne may
                                
                                  I haue ben seek and þat ful many a day
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                                  I may not goon so fer quod sche ne ryde
                                
                                  But I be deed so prikith it in my syde
                                
                                  May I nat aske a lybel sir Sompnour
                                
                                  And answer þer . by my procuratour
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                                  To suche þing as . men wol oppose me
                                
                                  Ȝis quod þis sompnour . pay anoon let se
                                
                                  Twelf pens to me and I þe wil acquite
                                
                                  I schal no profyt haue þer-by but lite
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                                  My mayster hath þe profyt and not I
                                
                                  Com of and let me ryden hastily
                                
                                  Ȝif me my twelf pens I may no lenger tary
                                
                                  Twelf pens quod sche . now lady seinte mary
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                                  So wisly help me . out of care and synne
                                
                                  Þis wyde world . þough þat I schulde wynne
                                
                                  Ne haue I not · xij · pens wiþinne myn hold
                                
                                  Ȝe knowen wel þat I am pore and old
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                                  kithe ȝoure almes on me pore wrecche
                                
                                  Nay þan quod he . þe foule fend me fecche
                                
                                  If I þexcuse þough þou schalt be spilt
                                
                                  Allas quod sche god wot I haue no gilt
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                                  Pay me quod he . or by þe swet seint Anne
                                
                                  As I wol bere away þy newe panne
                                
                                  For dette which þou owest me of old [folio 107b] 
                                
                                  whan þat þou madest þin housbond cokewold

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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 240
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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