The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 374] 
                                  
                                  þe þar nomore as in þis cas trauayle
                                
                                  I am þi frend þer I þe may auayle
                                
                                  Certein he knew of briberies mo
                                
                                  þan possible is to telle ȝou vnto
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                                  ffor in þis worlde is dogge for no bowe
                                
                                  That knew an hurt deer from an old bite kowe
                                
                                  Than þat þis sompnour knew a sleigh lecchour
                                
                                  Or avouter or elles a paramour
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                                  And for þat was þe fruyt of alle þe rent
                                
                                  Therfore on it he sette al his entent
                                
                                  And so bifelle þat ones on a day
                                
                                  This somnour euer waytyng on his pray
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                                  Rode for to somne an old wijf a ribibe
                                
                                  ffeynyng a cause for he wolde bribe
                                
                                  And happede þat he seigh byfore hym ryde /
                                
                                  A gay yoman vnder a forest syde
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                                  A bowe he bar and arwes bright and keene
                                
                                  he hadde vppon a courtepy of grene /
                                
                                  An hatte vppon his heed wiþ frenges blake
                                
                                  Sire quod þis Sompnour hail and wel atake /
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                                  Welcome quod he and euery good felawe
                                
                                  Whider ridestow vnder þis greene schawe
                                
                                  Seyde þis ȝeman wilt þou fer to day
                                
                                  This somnour him answerde and seyde nay
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                                  here faste by quod he is myn entente
                                
                                  To ryden for to reysen vp a rente /
                                
                                  It longeþ to my lordes dewete
                                
                                  Art þou þanne a baillif ȝe quod he
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                                  he dorste nouȝt for verray filþe and schame [folio 117a] 
                                
                                  Seie þat he was a somnour for þe name
                                
                                  Depardieux quod þis ȝoman dere broþer
                                
                                  þou art a bailly and I am anoþer
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                                  I am vnknowen as in þis cuntre
                                
                                  Of þin aqueintance I wil preye þe
                                
                                  And eek of breþerhode if þat þou leste
                                
                                  I haue golde and siluer in my cheste

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 253
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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