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

                                
                                     [6-text p 326] 
                                  
                                  But he trespas in word or elles dede
                                
                                  In holy writ ȝe may ȝour self wel rede
                                
                                  Aȝens an old man hoor vpon his hede
                                
                                  Ȝe schold arise wherefor I ȝow rede /
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                                  Ne doth vnto an old man more harm now
                                
                                  Na more þan ȝe wolde men dede to ȝow;
                                
                                  In age . if þat ȝe may so long abyde
                                
                                  And god be with ȝou / wher so ȝe go or ryde
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                                  I moot go þider as I haue to goo
                                
                                  Nay olde cherl by god thou schalt not so
                                
                                  Sayde þat oþer hasardour anoon
                                
                                  Thou partist nouȝt so lightly by seint Iohn
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                                  Thou spak right now of þat traytour deþ [folio 191b] 
                                
                                  That in þis contre alle oure frendes sleþ
                                
                                  Haue her my trouth as þou art his aspye /
                                
                                  Tel wher he is or elles þou schalt dye /
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                                  By god and by þat holy sacrament/
                                
                                  For soþly þou art oon of his assent
                                
                                  To schewe vs ȝonge folk þe false theef
                                
                                  Now sires þan if þat ȝow be so leef
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                                  To fynde deþ torn vp þis croked way
                                
                                  For in þat groue I laft him by my fay
                                
                                  Vnder a tree and þer he wil abyde
                                
                                  Ne for ȝour bost he nyl him no þing hyde
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                                  Se ȝe þat ook right þer ȝe schuln him fynde
                                
                                  God saue ȝow þat bought aȝein mankynde
                                
                                  And ȝow amend þus sayde þis olde man
                                
                                  And euerich of þese riotoures ran
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                                  Til þay come to the tre and ther þay founde
                                
                                  Of florins fyn of gold y-coyned rounde
                                
                                  wel neygh a seuen busshels as me thought
                                
                                  No lenger þanne after deþ þay sought
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                                  But ech of hem so glad was of þat sight
                                
                                  For þat þe florens so faire were and bright
                                
                                  That doun þai sette hem by þat precious hord
                                
                                  The ȝongest of hem spak/ þe firste word

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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 438
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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