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

                                
                                     [6-text p 310] 
                                  
                                  ffor to compleyne er he hire slow allas
                                
                                  And god it wot no thyng was hire trespas [[Camb. MS has lost 2 leaves]] 
                                
                                  [But þat she ranne hir/ fadir/ fyrst/ to see [Sloane MS 1685, on leaf181, back] 
                                
                                  To welcome hym with grete sollempnite
                                  Line 244 
                                
                                  And with þat worde she felle on swoune a-noone
                                
                                  And aftyr/ whan hir/ swonynge was gone
                                
                                  Sche risethe vp and to hir/ fadir/ sayde
                                
                                  Blessyd be god þat I shalle deye a mayde
                                  Line 248 
                                
                                  ȝif/ me my dethe or þat/ I haue a shame
                                
                                  Dothe with youre childe youre wille of goddes name
                                
                                  And with þat worde she praythe fulle ofte
                                
                                  þat with his swerde he shulde smyte hir/ softe
                                  Line 252 
                                
                                  And with þat/ worde on swone doune she felle
                                
                                  Hir fadyr/ with fulle sorowfulle hert/ and fel
                                
                                  Hir/ heede of/ smote and by þe top it hent/
                                
                                  And to þe Iuge he yaue it/ to present [Sloane MS 1685 folio 182a] 
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                                  As he sat in hys dome in consistorie
                                
                                  What þe Iuge it sawe as saithe þe storie
                                
                                  He bade take hym and honge hym also faste
                                
                                  But riȝt/ a-noon alle þe peple in þraste
                                  Line 260 
                                
                                  To saue þe knyȝt/ for reuthe and for pite
                                
                                  ffor knowen was þe folys Iniquyte
                                
                                  The peple a-none hade suspecte in þis thynge
                                
                                  By manere of thys Clerkes chalengynge
                                  Line 264 
                                
                                  That it was by þe assent/ of Apius·
                                
                                  They wyste wele þat he was lecherous·
                                
                                  ffor whiche vnto þis Apius þei gone
                                
                                  And kysten hym in prison riȝt anone
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                                  Where as he slouȝe hym self/ and claudius
                                
                                  þat seruaunt was vnto þis apius.
                                
                                  Was demed for [to] hange vpon a tre
                                
                                  But Virgineus of/ his grete pite
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                                  Prayde for hym þat he was exiled
                                
                                  And elles certes he hade be begyled·
                                
                                  The remenaunt were honged more & lesse
                                
                                  þat consentid weren to his cursidnesse

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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 363
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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