Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

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

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His children þat fortune hungry was [[Sloane MS 1685]] þat he hys armes gnewe and not for woo And said fader do not so Alas. But rathere ete þe flesshe vpon vs twoo 3640 Oure. flessh þou yaveste vs take oure flesshe vs fro. And ete y-nouȝe riȝt þus to hym þei saide [Sloane MS 1685 folio 209b] And after þat with-In a day or two þei leyde hem doune in his lappe & dyed 3644
Hym selfe dispeyred eke for honger starfe Thus endid ys þe myȝti Erle of pyse ffro hyeȝe estate fortune fro hym carf Of þis Tregedye hit ouȝt ynouȝe suffice 3648 ho · so wylle here hit/ in a lenger wyse Redeth þe grete poete of Itayle þat/ hyȝt/ Daunte for he can hit deuyse 3651 ffro poynte to poynte not oo worde wille he fayle] [[Sloane ex|tract ends.]]
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The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,
1868-1879.

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