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

                                
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                                  And for despyt he dronke moche more [folio 113b] 
                                
                                  An hundrid part þan he had doon byfore
                                
                                  And right anoon þis irous cursid wrecche /
                                
                                  Let þis knightes sone anoon biforn him fecche
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                                  Comaundyng hem þay schuld biforn him stonde
                                
                                  And sodeinly he took his bowe on honde
                                
                                  And vp þe streng he pulled to his eere
                                
                                  And wiþ an arwe he slough þe child right þere
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                                  Now wheþir haue I a sikur hond or noon
                                
                                  Quod he is al my mynde and might agoon
                                
                                  hath wyn byreuyd me myn eye sight
                                
                                  what schuld I telle þe answer of þe knight
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                                  his sone was slayn þer is no more to say
                                
                                  Be war þerfor. wiþ lordes how ȝe play
                                
                                  Syngith placebo. and I schal if I can
                                
                                  But if it be. vnto a pore man
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                                  To a pore man men schuld his vices telle
                                
                                  But not to a lord þey he schuld go to helle
                                
                                  lo Irous Cirus þilke Percien
                                
                                  how he destruyed þe ryuer of Gysen
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                                  For þat an hors of his was dreynt þer Inne.
                                
                                  whan þat he wente Babiloyne to wynne
                                
                                  he made þat þe ryuer was so smal
                                
                                  Þat wommen mighte wade it ouer al
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                                  lo what sayde he þat so wel teche can
                                
                                  Ne be no felaw . to an irous man
                                
                                  Ne with no wood man walke by þe way
                                
                                  lest þe repent I wol no lenger say
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                                  Now thomas leue broþer leue þin Ire
                                
                                  Thow schalt me fynde as iust as is a squire
                                
                                  Thyn anger doth þe al to sore smerte
                                
                                  hald not þe deueles knyf alway at þyn herte
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                                  But schewe to me al þy confessioun
                                
                                  Nay quod þis syke man by seynt symoun
                                
                                  I haue ben schriuen þis day of my curate
                                
                                  I haue him told holly al myn estate/

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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 255
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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