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

                                
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                                  This tale was not oonly / told for ȝow
                                
                                  But eke for other mo / ȝe woot wel how
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                                  That amonges / cristes aposteles twelue
                                
                                  Ther was no traitour / but Iudas him selue
                                
                                  Than why sholde þe remenant / alle haue blame
                                
                                  That gilteles were / by ȝow sey I the same
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                                  Sauf only this / ȝif ȝe wole herkne me
                                
                                  Ȝif any Iudas / in ȝoure couent be
                                
                                  Remeweth him by tyme / I ȝow rede
                                
                                  Ȝif shame or losse / may causen any drede
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                                  And beth no þing displesed / I ȝow pray
                                
                                  But in this caas / herkeneth what I say
                                
                                  IN london was a preest / an aunueler
                                
                                  That þerynne dwelled / had many a ȝeer
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                                  which was so plesant / and so seruisable
                                
                                  Vn to the wyf / where he was at table
                                
                                  That she wolde suffre him / no þing for to paie
                                
                                  ffor bord noþer clothing wente he neuere so gaye
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                                  And spending siluer / hadde he right ynowȝ [Lichfield MS folio 178a] 
                                
                                  Ther-of no force / I wol procede as now
                                
                                  And telle forth my tale / of the Chanon
                                
                                  That broghte þis preest/ to confusion
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                                  ¶ This false Chanon / com vpon a day
                                
                                  Vn-to the prestes chambre / there he lay
                                
                                  Besechinge him / to lene him a certeyn
                                
                                  Of gold / and he wolde. quit him a-geyn
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                                  Leneth me a marc / quod he but dayes thre
                                
                                  And at my day / I wol it quite the
                                
                                  And ȝif so be / þou fynde me fals
                                
                                  Another day / hange me by the hals
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                                  This prest him toke / a marc & þat as swithe
                                
                                  And this Chanon / him thanked ofte sithe
                                
                                  And toke his leue / and wente forth his weye
                                
                                  And atte thridde day / brouȝte his moneye
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                                  And to the preest / he took þis gold ageyn
                                
                                  Ther-of þis preest / was glad and fayn

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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 #728
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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