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

                                
                                     [6-text p 307] 
                                  
                                  For certes by no fors ne by no meede
                                
                                  him þought he was not able for to speede /
                                
                                  For sche was strong of frendes and eek sche
                                
                                  Conformed was in such souerayn bounte
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                                  That wel he wist he might hir neuer wynne
                                
                                  As for to make hir with hir body synne
                                
                                  For which wiþ gret deliberacioun
                                
                                  he sent after a clerk was in þe toun
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                                  The which he knew for subtil and for bold
                                
                                  This Iuge vnto þe clerk his tale haþ told
                                
                                  In secre wyse and made him to assure
                                
                                  He schulde telle it to no creature [folio 183b] 
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                                  And if he dede he schulde lese his heed
                                
                                  whan þat assented was þis cursed reed
                                
                                  Glad was the Iuge and made glad cheere /
                                
                                  And ȝaf him ȝiftes precious and deere /
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                                  whan schapen was al þis conspiracye /
                                
                                  Fro poynt to poynt how þat his lecherie
                                
                                  Parformed scholde be ful subtilly
                                
                                  As ȝe schul here afterward openly /
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                                  hom goþ þis clerk þat highte Claudius
                                
                                  This false Iuge þat highte apius
                                
                                  So was his name for it is no fable
                                
                                  But knowen for a storial þing notable
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                                  The sentence of hit soþ is out of doute
                                
                                  This false iugge goþ now fast aboute /
                                
                                  To hasten his delit al þat he may /
                                
                                  And so bifel soone after on a day
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                                  This false Iuge as telleþ vs þe story
                                
                                  As he was wont sat in his consistory
                                
                                  And ȝaf his domes vpon sondry caas
                                
                                  This false clerk com forth a ful good paas
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                                  And saide lord if þat it be ȝour wille
                                
                                  As doþ me right vpon þis pitous bille
                                
                                  In which I pleyne vpon virgilius
                                
                                  And if he wile seyn it is nouȝt þus

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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 419
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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