The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  And looke / þat thou reporte his name weel
                                
                                  ¶ Sire quod this boy / it nedeth neueradeel
                                
                                  It was me toold / er ye cam heer two houres
                                
                                  He was pardee / an old felawe of youres
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                                  And sodeynly / he was yslayn to-nyght
                                
                                  ffor-dronke / as he sat on his bench vpright
                                
                                  Ther cam a priuee theef/ men clepeth deeth
                                
                                  That in this contree / al the peple sleeth
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                                  And with his spere / he smoot his herte atwo
                                
                                  And wente his wey / with-outen wordes mo
                                
                                  He hath / a thousand slayn this pestilence
                                
                                  And maister / er ye come in his presence
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                                  Me thynketh / that it were necessarie
                                
                                  ffor to be war / of swich an Aduersarie
                                
                                  Beth redy / for to meete hym eueremoore
                                
                                  Thus taughte me my dame / I sey namoore
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                                  By seinte Marie seyde this Tauerner [folio 144b] 
                                
                                  The child seith sooth / for he hath slayn this yeer
                                
                                  Henne ouer a Mile / with-Inne a greet village
                                
                                  Bothe man and womman / child and hyne / and page
                                
                                  I trowe / his habitacion be there
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                                  To been auysed / greet wysdom it were
                                
                                  Er that he dide a man / a dishonour
                                
                                  ¶ Ye goddes Armes / quod this Riotour
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                                  Is it swich peril / with hym for to meete?
                                
                                  I shal hym seke / by wey and eek by strete
                                
                                  I make auow / to goddes digne bones
                                
                                  Herkneth felawes / we thre been al ones
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                                  Lat ech of vs / holde vp his hand til oother
                                
                                  And ech of vs / bicomen otheres brother
                                
                                  And we wol sleen / this false traytour deeth
                                
                                  He shal be slayn / which þat so manye sleeth
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                                  By goddes dignitee / er it be nyght/
                                
                                  ¶ Togidres han thise thre / hir trouthes plight
                                
                                  To lyue and dyen / ech of hem for oother
                                
                                  As though he were / his owene yborn brother

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 382
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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