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

                                
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                                  And loke þou report his name wel
                                
                                  Sire quod he but þat nedeþ neuer a del
                                
                                  It was me told er ȝe com heer tuo houres
                                
                                  He was par dy an old felaw of ȝoures
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                                  And sodeinly he was I-slayn to night
                                
                                  Fordronk as he sat on his bench vpright
                                
                                  Ther com a priue thef men clepen deth
                                
                                  That in þis contre al þe peple sleth
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                                  And with his spere he smot his hert a tuo
                                
                                  And went his way wiþoute wordes mo
                                
                                  he haþ a þousand slayn þis pestilence [folio 190b] 
                                
                                  And maister er ȝe come in his presence /
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                                  Me þinkeþ þat it is ful necessarie /
                                
                                  For to be war of such an aduersarie
                                
                                  Beþ redy for to meete him euermore
                                
                                  Thus taughte me my dame I say nomore
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                                  By seinte mary sayde þe tauerner
                                
                                  The child saiþ soþ for he haþ slayn þis ȝeer
                                
                                  Hens ouer a myle wiþinne a gret village
                                
                                  Boþe man and womman. child and page
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                                  I trowe his habitacioun be þere
                                
                                  To ben auysed gret wisdom it were
                                
                                  Er þat he dede a man þat dishonour
                                
                                  ȝe goddis armes quod þis ryottour
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                                  Is it such peril with him for to meete /
                                
                                  I schal him seeke by way and eek by strete
                                
                                  I make avow to goddis digne boones
                                
                                  Herkneþ felaws we þre ben al oones
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                                  let ech of vs hold vp his hond to other
                                
                                  And ech of vs bycome oþeres broþer
                                
                                  And we wil slee þis false traitour deth
                                
                                  He schal be slayne/ that so many sleeth
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                                  By goddis dignete er it be night
                                
                                  Togideres han þese þre here trouþes plight
                                
                                  To lyue and deye ech of he wiþ oþer
                                
                                  As þough he were his oughne sworne broþer

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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 436
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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