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

                                
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                                  How þat me thynkyth quod sche so god me speede
                                
                                  I seye a cherl haþ don a cherlis dede
                                
                                  What schulde I seye god lete hym neuere the
                                
                                  His syke hed is ful of vanyte
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                                  I holde hym in a manere of frenesye [folio 241a] 
                                
                                  Madame by god I schal not lye
                                
                                  But I on oþer whise may ben wreke
                                
                                  I schal de-fame hym ouyral þere I speke
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                                  This false blasfemour þat chargede me
                                
                                  To departe þat wele not departede be
                                
                                  What euery man I-lyche meche with myschaunce
                                
                                  The lord sat stylle as he were in a trance
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                                  And in his herte he rollede vp & doun
                                
                                  How hadde þis cherl þis ymaginacioun
                                
                                  To schewe þis probleme to a frere
                                
                                  Neuere erst er now herde I of swych matere
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                                  I trowe þe deuyl put it in his mynde
                                
                                  In arsmatryk coude þere no man fynde
                                
                                  By-forn þis day swich a questyoun
                                
                                  Who schulde mak a demonstracioun
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                                  That euery man schul haue I-lyche hise part
                                
                                  As of þe soun or sonour of a fart
                                
                                  O nyse proude cherl I-schrewe his face
                                
                                  Lo serys quod þe lord with harde grace
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                                  Ho herde euere of swich a thyng er now
                                
                                  To euery man I-like telle me howe
                                
                                  It is an inpossible it may not be
                                
                                  Ey nyce cherl god lete hym neuere the
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                                  The rumbelyng of a fart & euery soun
                                
                                  Nys bot of eyr reuerberacioun
                                
                                  And euere it wastith lyte & lyte awey
                                
                                  þere is no man can deme be myn fey
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                                  ȝif þat it were departid equally
                                
                                  What lo myn cherl lo how schrewedely
                                
                                  Vp to myn confessour to day he spak
                                
                                  I holde hym certaynly demonyak

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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 232
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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