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

                                
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                                  And for despite he dranke ful moche more
                                
                                  An hundred part þan he had don bifore
                                
                                  And right anon þis cursede wrecche
                                
                                  lete þis knightes sone biforn him fecche
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                                  And commaundyng hem þey schulde biforn him stonde
                                
                                  And sodeinly he took his bowe on honde
                                
                                  And vp þe streng he pulled to his eere
                                
                                  And wiþ an arwe he slough þe child right þere
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                                  Now wheþer haue I a siker hond or non
                                
                                  Quoþ he is al my might and my witte agon
                                
                                  haþ wyn byreued me myn yhe sight
                                
                                  What schulde I telle þe answere of þe knight
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                                  his sone was slayn þer is namore to say
                                
                                  Beþ war þerfore wiþ lordes how ȝe play
                                
                                  Syngeþ placebo and I schal if I can
                                
                                  But if it be vnto a pouere man
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                                  To a pouere man men scholde his vices telle / [folio 126b] 
                                
                                  But not to a lord þei he schulde go te helle /
                                
                                  Lo Irrous Sirus þilke Percien
                                
                                  how he destroyed þe ryuer of Gysen
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                                  ffor þat an hors of his was dreynt þerinne
                                
                                  Whan þat he wente Babilon to wynne
                                
                                  he made þat þe ryuer was so smal
                                
                                  That wommen mighten waden oueral
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                                  lo what seyde he þat so wel teche can
                                
                                  Ne he no felawe to an yrous man
                                
                                  Ne wiþ no wood man walke by þe way
                                
                                  leste þe repente I wol nomore say
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                                  Now Thomas leeue broþer leue þin Ire
                                
                                  Thou schalt me fynde as iuste as is a squire
                                
                                  holde nought þe deueles knyf ay at þin herte /
                                
                                  Thin anger doþ þe al to sore smerte
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                                  But schewe to me alle þy confession
                                
                                  Nay quod þis seeke man by seint Symon
                                
                                  I haue ben schriuen þis day at my curate
                                
                                  I haue him tolde al holly myn estate

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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 274
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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