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

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                                    IN Flaundres whilom was a companye / [¶ Narrat] 
                                  
                                    Of ȝonge folkes þat haunted folye
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                                    As ryot hasard stywes and tauernes
                                  
                                    wher as wiþ lutes harpes and gyternes
                                  
                                    Thay daunce and play at dees boþe day & night
                                  
                                    And ete also and drynk ouer her might
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                                    Thurgh which þay doon þe deuyl sacrifise
                                  
                                    wiþinne þe deueles temple in cursed wise
                                  
                                    By superfluite abhominable
                                  
                                    her othes been so greet and so dampnable
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                                    That it is grisly for to hiere hem swere
                                  
                                    Our blisful lordes body þay totere
                                  
                                    hem þoughte Iewes rent him nouȝt y-nough
                                  
                                    And ech of hem at oþeres synne lough
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                                    And right anoon þer come tombesteris
                                  
                                    . . . . .
                                  
                                    . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                  
                                    Whiche þat ben verray þe deueles officeres
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                                    To kyndle and blowe þe fuyr of leccherie
                                  
                                    Þat is anexid vnto glotonye
                                  
                                    The holy wryt take I to my witnesse [¶ nolite inebriare vino in quo &c.] 
                                  
                                    That luxury is in wyn and dronkenesse
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                                    lo how þat dronken loth vnkyndely
                                  
                                    lay by his doughtres tuo vnwityngly
                                  
                                    So dronk he was he niste what he wrought
                                  
                                    herodes who-so wel þe story sought
                                    Line 488 
                                  
                                    . . . . . [no spurious lines in this MS.]

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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 430
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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