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

                                
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                                  As sone as day he wente out of the toun
                                
                                  This man gan fallyn in suspecioun
                                
                                  Remembrynge hym on the dremys that he mette
                                
                                  And forth he goth no lengere wolde he lette
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                                  Vn-to the Westgate of the toun & fond
                                
                                  A dong carte wente as it weere to dunge lond
                                
                                  That was a-rayed in that same wyse
                                
                                  As ȝe han herd the dede man deuyse
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                                  And with an hardy herte he gan to crye
                                
                                  Vengeaunce & Iustise of this felonye
                                
                                  Myn felawe morderede is this same nyght
                                
                                  And in this carte heere he lyth gapynge vp-ryght
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                                  I crye out on the mynystris quod he
                                
                                  That schulde kepe & rewele this cete
                                
                                  Harrowe allas here lyth myn felawe slayn
                                
                                  What schulde I moore vnto this tale sayn
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                                  The peple out sterte & caste the carte to grounde
                                
                                  And in the myddyl of the donge they founde
                                
                                  The dede man that morderede was al newe [folio 367b] 
                                
                                  O blysful god that art so Iuste & trewe
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                                  Lo how that thow bewreyis mordere alway
                                
                                  Mordere wele out that se we day be day
                                
                                  Mordere is so wlatsome & abhomynable
                                
                                  To god that is so Iust & resonable
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                                  That he ne wele not suffere that it helid be
                                
                                  Thow it abyde a ȝeer or two or thre
                                
                                  Mordere wele out this myn conclusioun
                                
                                  And ryght a-noon mynyste of that toun
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                                  Han hent the cartere & so sore hym pynyd
                                
                                  And ek the hosteller so soore engyned
                                
                                  That they be-knewe here wikkedenesse a-non
                                
                                  And weere an hangede by the nekke boon
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                                  Here may men seen that dremys been to drede
                                
                                  ¶ And certis in the same bok I reede
                                
                                  Rygh in the nexte chapitere aftyr this
                                
                                  I gabbe not so haue I ioye or blys

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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 507
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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