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

                                
                                     [6-text p 308] 
                                  
                                  I wil proue hit and fynde good witnesse
                                
                                  That soþ is þat my bulle wol expresse /
                                
                                  The Iuge answerd of þis in his absence
                                
                                  I may not ȝiue diffinityf sentence
                                  Line 172 
                                
                                  let do him calle and I wol gladly hiere
                                
                                  Thou schalt haue alle right and no wrong heere
                                
                                  Virginius com to wite þe Iugges wille /
                                
                                  And right anoon was red þis cursed bille
                                  Line 176 
                                
                                  The sentence of hit was as ȝe schul heere
                                
                                  ¶ To ȝow my lord sire apius so deere
                                
                                  Scheweþ ȝoure pore seruaunt Claudius
                                
                                  how þat a knight called Virginius
                                  Line 180 
                                
                                  Aȝeins þe lawe aȝens alle equyte /
                                
                                  holdeth expresse aȝeinst þe wille of me [folio 184a] 
                                
                                  My seruaunt which þat my thral is by right
                                
                                  which fro myn hous was stolen on a night
                                  Line 184 
                                
                                  whiles sche was ful ȝong þat wol I preue
                                
                                  By witnesse lord so þat ȝe ȝow not greue
                                
                                  Sche is nought his douȝter what so he say
                                
                                  wherfore to ȝow my lord þe Iugge I pray
                                  Line 188 
                                
                                  Ȝelde me my þrall if þat it be ȝour wille
                                
                                  lo þis was al þe sentence of þe bille
                                
                                  Virgineus gan vpon þe clerk byholde
                                
                                  But hastily er he his tale tolde
                                  Line 192 
                                
                                  he wolde haue proued it as schold a knight
                                
                                  And eek by witnessyng of many a wight
                                
                                  That al was fals þat sayde his aduersarie
                                
                                  This cursed Iuge wold no lenger tarye /
                                  Line 196 
                                
                                  Ne heere a word more of virgineus
                                
                                  But ȝaf his Iugement and saide þus
                                
                                  I deme anoon þis clerk his seruaunt haue
                                
                                  Thou schalt no lenger in þin hous hir haue
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                                  Go bringe hir forþ and put hir in oure warde
                                
                                  This clerk schal haue his thral thus I a-warde
                                
                                  And whan þis worþy knight virgineus
                                
                                  Thurgh þassent of þis Iuge apius

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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 420
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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