The Canterbury tales

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Author

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

Publication

Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin

1957

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This text has been made available through the Oxford Text Archive for personal scholarly use only. OTA number: U-1678-C

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"The Canterbury tales." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/CT. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.

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De Barnabo de Lumbardia
Off melan grete barnabo viscounte, Line 2399 
God of delit, and scourge of lumbardye, Line 2400 
Why sholde I nat thyn infortune acounte, Line 2401 
Sith in estaat thow cloumbe were so hye? Line 2402 
Thy brother sone, that was thy double allye, Line 2403 
For he thy nevew was, and sone-in-lawe, Line 2404 
Withinne his prisoun made thee to dye, --  Line 2405 
But why, ne how, noot I that thou were slawe. Line 2406 