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

                                
                                     [6-text p 310] 
                                  
                                  For to compleyne er he hir slough allas
                                
                                  And God it woot no þing was hir trespas
                                
                                  But þat sche ran hir fader first/ to se
                                
                                  To welcome him with gret solempnite
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                                  And with þat word a swoun sche fel anoon /
                                
                                  And after whan hir swownyng was agoon
                                
                                  Sche riseþ vp and to hir fader sayde /
                                
                                  Blessed be god þat I schal deye a mayde /
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                                  Ȝeue me my deth er þat I haue a schame
                                
                                  Do with ȝour child ȝour wille a goddes name
                                
                                  And with þat word sche prayed him ful ofte
                                
                                  That wiþ his swerd he schulde smyte hir softe
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                                  And wiþ þat word on swoune doun sche fel
                                
                                  hir fader with ful sorwful hert and fel
                                
                                  hir heed of smoot and by þe top it hente
                                
                                  And to þe Iuge bigan it to presente
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                                  As he sat in his doom in concistory
                                
                                  whan the Iuge it say as saiþ the story [folio 185a] 
                                
                                  he bad take him and honge him faste
                                
                                  But right anoon alle þe poeple in þraste /
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                                  To saue þe knight for rouþe and for pite
                                
                                  For knowen was þe fals iniquite /
                                
                                  The poeple anoon had suspect in þis þing
                                
                                  By moner of þis clerkes chalengyng
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                                  That it was by thassent of apius
                                
                                  That wiste wel þat he was leccherous
                                
                                  For which vnto þis Apius þay goon
                                
                                  And casten him in prisoun right anoon
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                                  wher as he slough himself and Claudius
                                
                                  That servaunt was vnto þis Apius
                                
                                  was demed for to honge vpon a tree
                                
                                  But virgineus of his grete pite
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                                  Prayde for him þat he was exiled
                                
                                  And elles certes he had ben bigiled
                                
                                  The remenaunt were anhanged more and lesse /
                                
                                  That were consented to þis cursednesse /

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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 422
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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