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

                                
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                                  As faire / as any man in Engelond
                                
                                  Whiche were me yeuen / by the Popes hond
                                
                                  If any of yow / wol of deuocion
                                
                                  Offren / and han myn absolucion.
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                                  Com forth anon / and kneleth here adoun
                                
                                  And mekely / receyueth my pardoun
                                
                                  Or ellis / taketh pardon as ye wende
                                
                                  Al newe and fressh / at euery myles ende
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                                  So þat ye offren alwey / newe and newe
                                
                                  Nobles / or pens / whiche þat been good & trewe
                                
                                  It is an honour / to euerich that is heer
                                
                                  That ye mowe haue / a suffisant pardoner
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                                  Tassoile yow / in contree as ye ryde
                                
                                  ffor auentures / whiche þat may bityde
                                
                                  Parauenture / ther may falle oon or two
                                
                                  Doun of his hors / and breke his nekke atwo
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                                  Looke swich a seuretee is it to yow alle
                                
                                  That I am / in youre felaweship y-falle
                                
                                  That may assoille yow / bothe moore & lasse
                                
                                  Whan þat the soule / shal fro the body passe
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                                  I rede / that oure hoost shal bigynne
                                
                                  ffor he is moost envoluped in synne
                                
                                  Com forth sire hoost / and offre first anon [folio 203b] 
                                
                                  And thow shalt kisse / the Relikes euerychon
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                                  Ye for a grote / vnbokele anon thy purs
                                
                                  ¶ Nay nay quod he / thanne haue I Cristes curs
                                
                                  Lat be quod he / it shal nat be so thee ich
                                
                                  Thow woldest make me kisse thyn olde breech
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                                  And swere it were / a Relyk of a Seint
                                
                                  Thogh it were / with thy fondement depeynt
                                
                                  But by the croys / which þat Seint Eleyne foond
                                
                                  I wold I hadde / thy coylons in myn hond
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                                  In stide of Relikes / or of Seintuarie
                                
                                  Lat cutte hem of / I wol thee hem carie
                                
                                  They shul be shryned / in an hogges toord
                                
                                  ¶ This pardoner / answerde nat a word

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 468
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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