The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 373] 
                                  
                                  ffor we ben out of his coreccioun
                                
                                  They han of vs no Iurediccioun
                                
                                  Ne neuere ne schuln of alle here lyuys
                                
                                  Petyr so been wemen at þe styuys
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                                  Quod þe somenour I-put out of oure cure
                                
                                  Pees with myschaunce & with mysauenture
                                
                                  Thus seyde oure ost & lat hym telle his tale
                                
                                  Now tellith forth þow þat þe somenour gale
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                                  Ne sparyth not myn owene maystyr dere
                                
                                  This false thef þis somenour quod þe frere
                                
                                  Hadde alwey baudys redy to his hond
                                
                                  As ony hauk to lure in ingelond
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                                  That tolde hym al þe secre þat þey knewe
                                
                                  ffor hire aqueyntauns was not comyn of newe
                                
                                  They were hise apprououris pryuyly
                                
                                  He tok hym self a profyt þerby
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                                  His maystyr knew not alwey what he wan
                                
                                  With-outyn maundement a lewede man
                                
                                  He coude somounne vp peyne of crystis curs
                                
                                  And þey were ful glad to fille his purs
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                                  And made hym noble festis at þe nale
                                
                                  And ryȝt as Iudas hadde purse smale
                                
                                  And was a thef ryȝt swich a thef was he
                                
                                  Hise mayster hadde but half his duete
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                                  He was ȝif I schal ȝeuyn hym hise lawede
                                
                                  A thef & ek a somenour & a baude
                                
                                  He hadde ek wenchis at his retenew
                                
                                  That wheþer syre Robert oþer syre Hewe
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                                  Or Iakke or Raf or who so þat it were
                                
                                  That lay by hem þey tolde it in hise ere
                                
                                  Thus was þe wenche & he at on assent
                                
                                  And he wolde feche a feynede maundement
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                                  And somoune hem to chapitere boþe two [folio 229b] 
                                
                                  And pile þe man & lete þe wenche go
                                
                                  Thanne wolde he sey frend I schal for thyn sake
                                
                                  Don stryke þe out of oure letteris blake

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 206
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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