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

                                
                                     [6-text p 331] 
                                  
                                  As fair as eny man in Engelond
                                
                                  which were me I-ȝeue by popes hond
                                
                                  If eny of ȝow wol of deuocioun
                                
                                  Offren and haue myn absolucioun
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                                  Cometh forth anon knelith her a-doun
                                
                                  And ȝe schul haue here my pardoun
                                
                                  Or elles takith pardoun as ȝe wende
                                
                                  Al newe and freissch at euery townes ende
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                                  So þat ȝe offren alway new and newe /
                                
                                  Nobles and pens which þat ben good and trewe /
                                
                                  It is an honur to euery þat is heer
                                
                                  That may haue a suffisaunt pardoner
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                                  Tassoile ȝow in contre as ȝe ryde
                                
                                  For auentures which þat may bytyde
                                
                                  For paraunter· þer may falle oon or tuo
                                
                                  Doun of his hors and breke his nekke a-tuo
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                                  loke such a seurete is to ȝou alle
                                
                                  That I am in ȝour felaschip I-falle
                                
                                  That may assoyle ȝou boþe more and lasse
                                
                                  whan þat þe soule schal fro þe body passe
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                                  I rede þat oure hoste schal bygynne
                                
                                  For he is most enuoliped in synne
                                
                                  Com forþ sire ost and offer first anoon [folio 194a] 
                                
                                  And þou schalt kisse þe reliquis euerichoon
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                                  Ȝe for a grote vnbocle þi purs
                                
                                  Nay nay quod he þan haue I cristes curs
                                
                                  let be quod he it schal not be so theech
                                
                                  Thou woldest make me kisse þin olde breech
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                                  And swere it were a relik of a seynt
                                
                                  Though it were wiþ þi foundement depeynt
                                
                                  But by þe cros which þat seynt heleyn fond
                                
                                  I wold I had þy coylons in myn hond
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                                  In stede of reliks or of seintuary /
                                
                                  let cut hem of I wol help hem to cary
                                
                                  Thay schul be schryned in an hogges tord
                                
                                  This pardoner answerde nat o 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 443
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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