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

                                
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                                  The hyhe god forbad sweryng at al /
                                
                                  witnes on Mathew but in special
                                
                                  Of sweryng saith þe holy Ieremye
                                
                                  Thou schalt say soth þin oþes and not lye
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                                  And swere in doom and eek in rightwisnes
                                
                                  But ydel sweryng is a cursednes
                                
                                  Bihold and se þer in þe firste table
                                
                                  Of hihe goddes heste honurable /
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                                  How þat þe secounde heste is this [folio 190a] 
                                
                                  Tak not in ydel ne his name amys
                                
                                  Lo he rather forbedith such sweryng
                                
                                  Than homicide or many a corsed þing
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                                  I say as by order þus it stondith
                                
                                  This knoweth he þat þe hestes vnderstondeth
                                
                                  how þat þe second hest of god is that
                                
                                  And forþermore I wol þe telle a plat
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                                  The vegance schal not parte fro his hous
                                
                                  That of his othes is outrageous
                                
                                  By goddes precious hert and by his nayles
                                
                                  And by þe blood of crist þat/ is in hayles
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                                  Seuen is my chaunce and also cink and tray
                                
                                  By goddis armes and þou falsly play
                                
                                  This daggere schal þurgh þin herte goo
                                
                                  This fruyt comeþ of þe bicchid boones tuo
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                                  Forswering Ire / falsnes homicide /
                                
                                  Now for þe loue of crist þat for vs dyde
                                
                                  leueth ȝoure othis boþe gret and smale
                                
                                  But sires now wol I telle forþ my tale
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                                  These riottours þre / of which I ȝou telle
                                
                                  longe erst þan prime rong eny belle
                                
                                  were set hem in a tauern for to drynke
                                
                                  And as þay sat þay herd a belle clinke
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                                  Biforn a corps was caried to þe graue
                                
                                  That oon of hem gan calle vnto his knaue
                                
                                  Go bet quoþ he and axe redily
                                
                                  what corps is þat passeth her forþ by

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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 435
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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