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

The pike-purs & the pale drede The smylere with the knyf vndyr the cloke [VII. 33. [not the pickpurse.]] [VII. 34.] The shepne brennynge with the blake smoke 2000 The tresoun & the morderyng in the bed The opene werre with woundis al be-bled Contek with blody knyf & scharp manace [VII. 34.] Al ful of chyrkyng was that sory place 2004 The sloere of hym self ȝit saw I þere Hese herte blod hath bathed al hese here The nayl I-dreue in the schod a nyȝt The colde deth with mouth gapynge vp ryght 2008 In myddis of the temple there sat myschaunce [folio 159b] ['Amyddes of the' place sat 'la virtù tristissima.' VII. 34.] With disconfort & sory cuntenauns Ȝit saw I wodnesse laughynge in hese rage [VII. 35.] Armyd compleynt / outes & fers corage ['La Morte armata vide e lo stupore.' VII. 35.] 2012 The careyn in the bosch with throte I-korwe A thousent slayn & not of qualm I-storve The tyraunt with the pray by forse I-raft The toun distroyed there was no þyng laft [VII. 36.] 2016 Ȝit saw I brent the schepis hospesterys ['Le navi bellatrici.' VII. 37. Neither Boccaccio, nor yet his prototype Statius, speaks of any ships as burnt, but merely as trophies.] The hunte strangeled with the wilde berys The sowe fretyn the child ryȝt in þe cradil The cook I-skaldit for al hese longe ladil 2020 Nouȝt was for-ȝetyn by the infortune of marthe The cartere ouyr redyn with hese carte [VII. 37] Vndir the whil ful lowe lay he a-doun There were also of martyrs dyvysioun 2024 The labourer the bocher & the smyth That forgith scharpe swerdis on the steyth And al a-boute depeyntid in a tour Saw I conquest sittynge in gret honour 2028 With the scharpe swerd ouyr his hed Hangyng by a sotyl twynede thred Depeyntid was the slautre of Iulyus Of grete nero & of antonyus 2032 Al be that ilke tyme they were onborn
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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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