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

                                  
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                                    Right so as bees swermen out of an hyue
                                  
                                    Out of þe deueles ers þey gon to dryue
                                  
                                    Twenty þousand freres on a route
                                  
                                    And þoughte helle swarme al aboute
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                                    And camen aȝein as faste as þey mighte gon
                                  
                                    And in his ers þey crepeden euerichon
                                  
                                    he clapte his tayl aȝein and lay stille
                                  
                                    This frere whan he loked hadde his fille
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                                    vppon þis tormentes of þis sory place /
                                  
                                    his spirit god restored of his grace /
                                  
                                    Vnto his body aȝein and he awok
                                  
                                    But naþeles for feere ȝit he quok
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                                    So was þe deueles ars ay in his mynde
                                  
                                    þat is his heritage of verray kinde
                                  
                                    God saue ȝow alle saue þis cursed frere /
                                  
                                    My prologe wol I ende in þis manere /

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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 263
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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