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

                                
                                     [6-text p 330] 
                                  
                                  And afterward it happed hem par cas
                                
                                  To take þe botel þer þe poysoun was
                                
                                  And drank and ȝaf his felaw drink also
                                
                                  For which þay sterued boþe tuo
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                                  But certes I suppose þat amycen
                                
                                  wrot neuer in Canoun ne in non fen
                                
                                  Mo wonder sorwes of empoisonyng
                                
                                  Thus hadde þese wrecches tuo here endyng
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                                  Thus endid been þese homicides tuo
                                
                                  And eek þe fals empoysoner also /
                                
                                  O cursed synne ful of cursednesse
                                
                                  O traytorous homicidy o wikkednesse
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                                  O glotony luxurie and hasardrye /
                                
                                  Thou blasphemour of crist with vilanye
                                
                                  And oþes grete of vsage and of pride
                                
                                  Allas mankynde how may it bytyde
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                                  Ther to þy creatour which þat þe wrought
                                
                                  And wiþ his precious herte blood þe bought
                                
                                  Thou art so fals and so vnkynde allas
                                
                                  Now good men god forȝeue ȝow ȝour trespas
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                                  And ware ȝow fro þe synne of auarice [folio 193b] 
                                
                                  Myn holy pardoun may ȝou alle warice
                                
                                  So þat ȝe offren noblis or starlinges
                                
                                  Or elles siluer spones broches or rynges
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                                  Bowiþ ȝour hedes vnder þis holy bulle
                                
                                  Comeþ forþ ȝe wyues and offreþ ȝour wolle
                                
                                  Ȝour names I entre her in my rolle anoon
                                
                                  In to þe blis of heuen schul ȝe goon
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                                  I ȝow assoile by myn heyh power
                                
                                  If ȝe woln offre as clene and eek als cler
                                
                                  As ȝe were born . and sires lo þus I preche /
                                
                                  And Ihū crist þat is oure soules leche
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                                  So graunte ȝow his pardoun to receyue
                                
                                  For þat is best I wil not ȝow disceyue
                                
                                  But sires o word forȝat I in my tale /
                                
                                  I haue reliks and pardoun in my male /

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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 442
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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