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

                                
                                     [6-text p 307] 
                                  
                                  ffor certes by no force ne by no mede [[Sloane MS 1685]] 
                                
                                  hym þouȝt he was not able for to spede
                                
                                  ffor he was stronge of frendes and eke she
                                
                                  Confermyd was in suche souereyne beaute
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                                  þat/ wele he wyste he myȝt/ hir/ nevere wynne
                                
                                  As for to make hir with hir/ body synne
                                
                                  ffor whiche with grete deliberacioun
                                
                                  he sent/ aftyr/ a Clerk/ in-to þe toun
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                                  The whiche he knewe for sotelle and for bolde
                                
                                  Thys Iuge vnto þis Clerk his tale hathe tolde
                                
                                  I secre wyse and made hym to assure
                                
                                  he shulde telle it to no creature
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                                  And ȝif/ he did he shulde lese hys hede
                                
                                  Whan ascented was þis cursid reede
                                
                                  Glad was þe Iuge and made glad chere
                                
                                  And ȝafe hym ȝiftes precious & dere [Sloane MS 1685 folio 180b] 
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                                  Whan shapen was alle þis conspiracie
                                
                                  ffrom poynt to poynt how þat his lecherie
                                
                                  Perfourmed shulde be fulle sotelly
                                
                                  As ȝe shalle here and afterward opunly
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                                  home gothe þis. Clerk þat hiȝt Claudius.
                                
                                  Thys false Iuge þat/ hiȝt Apius.
                                
                                  So was hys name for it ys no fable
                                
                                  But/ knowen for an historialle þenge notable
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                                  The sentence of/ hit · sothe ys oute of/ doute
                                
                                  Thys false Iuge gothe nowe faste a-boute
                                
                                  To hasten his delyte al þat/ he may
                                
                                  And so by-felle sone after/ on a day
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                                  Thys false Iuge as tellethe vs þe storie
                                
                                  As he was wonte sat in his consistorie
                                
                                  And ȝaue his domes vpon sundry caas.
                                
                                  This false clerke come forthe a wele gode paas.
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                                  And said lord ȝif it be youre wille
                                
                                  Ȝis dothe me riȝt/ vpon þis pitous bille] [[Sloane extract ends]] 
                                
                                  In which I pleyne vp-on virginius [Camb. Univ. Lib. MS Gg. 4. 27]  [folio 302a] 
                                
                                  And ȝif he wele seyn it is not thus

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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 360
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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