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

                                
                                  was neuere trompe of half so gret a soun
                                
                                  This pardoner hadde heer as ȝelwe as wex
                                
                                  But smothe it heng. as doth a strike of Flex
                                  Line 676 
                                
                                  By vnces hynge his lokkes þat he hadde
                                
                                  And þerwith he his schuldres ouerspradde
                                
                                  Ful thenne it lay by culpons on and oon
                                
                                  And hood for Iolitee ne wered he noon
                                  Line 680 
                                
                                  For it was trussud vp in his walet
                                
                                  Him þought he rood al of þe newe get
                                
                                  Discheuele sauf his cappe he rood al bare
                                
                                  Suche glaryng eyȝen hadde he as an hare
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                                  A vernicle hadde he sowed on his cappe [folio 10a] 
                                
                                  His walet lay byforn him in his lappe
                                
                                  Bret ful of pardoun come from Rome al hoot
                                
                                  A voys he hadde as smal as eny goot
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                                  No berd ne hadde he ne neuer scholde haue
                                
                                  As smothe it was as it ware late I-schaue /
                                
                                  I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare
                                
                                  But of his craft fro Berwyk vnto ware
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                                  Ne was þer such another pardoner
                                
                                  For in his male he hadde a pilwebeer
                                
                                  which þat he saide was oure lady veyl
                                
                                  he seide he hadde a gobet of þe seyl
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                                  That seynt Petur hadde whan he wente
                                
                                  Vppon þe see til ihū crist him hente
                                
                                  he hadde a cros of latoun ful of stones
                                
                                  And in a glas he hadde pigges bones
                                  Line 700 
                                
                                  But with þise reliqes whanne þat he fand
                                
                                  A pore parsoun dwellyng vppon land
                                
                                  vpon a day he gat him more moneye
                                
                                  Than þat þe parsoun gat in monthes tweye
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                                  And þus with feyned flaterie and Iapes
                                
                                  he made þe parsoun and þe poeple his apes
                                
                                  But trewely to tellen atte laste
                                
                                  He was in churche a noble ecclesiaste
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                                  wel cowde he rede a lessoun or a storye

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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 20
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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