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

                                  
                                       [6-text p 384] 
                                    
                                    Right so as bees swarmen out of an hyue
                                  
                                    Out of þe deueles ers þay gonne dryue
                                  
                                    Twenty þousand freres on a route
                                  
                                    And þorugh out helle swarmed al aboute
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                                    And comen as fast as þay may goon
                                  
                                    And in his ers þay crepen euerich oon ·
                                  
                                    he clappid his tayl agayn and lay ful stille
                                  
                                    This frere whan he loked had his fille
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                                    Vpon þe torment of þis sory place
                                  
                                    his spirit god restored of his grace
                                  
                                    vnto his body agayn and he awook
                                  
                                    But naþeles for fere ȝit he quook
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                                    So was þe deueles ers ȝit in his mynde
                                  
                                    That is his heritage of verray kynde/
                                  
                                    God saue ȝow alle saue þis cursed frere
                                  
                                    My proloug wol I ende in þis manere [[No break in the MS.]] 
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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 244
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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