The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
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                                  This tale / was nat onely / told for yow
                                
                                  But eke for other moo / yee wote wele how
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                                  That among cristes Apostles .xij.
                                
                                  There was no traytour / but Iudas hym selue
                                
                                  Than why shold / þe remenaunt han a blame
                                
                                  That giltles were / by you sey I þe same
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                                  Saue onely this / yf ye woll herken me
                                
                                  Yf ony Iudas / in your Couent be
                                
                                  Remeveth hym be tymes I yow rede
                                
                                  Yf shame or loos / may causen ony drede
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                                  And be no thyng/ dysplesed I you prey
                                
                                  But in this caas / herkeneth wat I shall sey
                                
                                  In london was a preest / annielere
                                
                                  That there-in dwelled had / many a yere
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                                  Which was so plesaunt/ and so seruysable
                                
                                  vn-to the wyf where / as he was at þe table
                                
                                  That she wold suffre hym / no thing for to pay
                                
                                  ffor borde ne clothyng went he neuer so gay
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                                  And spendyng siluer / hade he right ynow
                                
                                  There-of no force / I woll procede as now
                                
                                  And tell forth my tale of the Chanon
                                
                                  That brought this preest/ to confusion
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                                  This fals Chanon / cam vp-on a day
                                
                                  vn-to the prestes Chambre where he lay
                                
                                  Bysechyng hym / to lene hym a certein
                                
                                  Of gold / and he wold qwyte it hym ayein
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                                  leene me a mark / but dayes thre
                                
                                  And at my day / I woll it qwyten thee /
                                
                                  And yf so be / þou fynde me fals [Eg. 2726 folio 230b] 
                                
                                  Another day / hang me by the hals
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                                  The preest hym toke / a mark/ and that as swythe
                                
                                  And þis Chanon hym thanked often sythe
                                
                                  And toke his leve / and went forth his weye
                                
                                  And at þe iij.de day / brought his moneye
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                                  And to this preest/ he toke this gold agein
                                
                                  Where-of this preest/ was wonder glad and feyn

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 557
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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