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

                                
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                                  how þat me þynkith quod sche so god me speede
                                
                                  I say a cherl haþ doon a cherles deede
                                
                                  what schuld I say god let him neuer þe
                                
                                  His syke heed is full of vanyte
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                                  I hold him in a maner frenesye /
                                
                                  Ma dame quod he I-wis I schal not lye
                                
                                  But I in oþir wise may be wreke
                                
                                  I schal defame him ouer al wher I speke
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                                  The false blasfememour þat chargid me [folio 115b] 
                                
                                  To parten þat wil not departed be
                                
                                  To euery man yliche wiþ meschaunce
                                
                                  The lord sat stille as he were in a traunce
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                                  And in his hert he rollid vp and doun
                                
                                  How had þis cherl ymaginacioun
                                
                                  So schewe such a probleme to þe frere
                                
                                  Neuer eft er now herd I of such matiere
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                                  I trowe þe deuel put it in his mynde
                                
                                  In ars metrik / schal þer no man fynde
                                
                                  Biforn þis day of such a questioun
                                
                                  who schulde make a demonstracioun
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                                  That euery man schuld haue a lyk his part
                                
                                  As of a soun or of a sauour of a fart
                                
                                  O nyce proude cherl I schrew his face
                                
                                  lo sires quod þe lord wiþ harde grace
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                                  who euer herde of such a þing er now
                                
                                  To euery man y-like tel me how
                                
                                  It is impossible it may not be
                                
                                  Ey nyce cherl god let him neuer þe
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                                  The romblyng of a fart and euery soun
                                
                                  Nis but an aier reuerberacioun
                                
                                  And euer it wastith lyte and lyt away
                                
                                  Ther nys no man can deme by my fay /
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                                  If þat it were departed equally
                                
                                  what lo my cherl what lo how schrewedly
                                
                                  vnto my confessour to day he spak
                                
                                  I hold him certeinly demoniak

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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 259
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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