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

                                
                                     [6-text p 307] 
                                  
                                  ffor certes by no force ne by no meede
                                
                                  him þought/ he was not able for to speede /
                                
                                  ffor he was strong of freendes and eek sche
                                
                                  Confermed was in such souereyn beaute
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                                  þat wel he wiste he might hire neuer wynne
                                
                                  As for to make hire wiþ hire body synne
                                
                                  ffor which wiþ gret deliberacion
                                
                                  he sente after a clerk in-to þe toun
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                                  The which he knew for subtil and for bold
                                
                                  This Iuge vnto þis clerk his tale haþ told
                                
                                  In secre wise and made him to assure /
                                
                                  he scholde telle it to no creature
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                                  And if he dide he scholde leese his heed
                                
                                  Whan assented was þis cursed reed
                                
                                  Glad was þe Iuge and made glad chere /
                                
                                  And ȝaf him ȝiftes precious and deere /
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                                  Whan schapen was al þis conspiracie
                                
                                  ffrom poynt to poynt how þat his leccherie
                                
                                  Parformed schulde be ful subtilly
                                
                                  as ȝe schal here aftirward openly
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                                  hom goþ þis clerk þat highte Claudius
                                
                                  þis false Iuge þat highte Apius
                                
                                  So was his name for it is no fable /
                                
                                  But knowen for an historial þing notable
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                                  The sentence of it soþ is out of doute [folio 193a] 
                                
                                  þis false Iuge goþ now faste aboute
                                
                                  To hasten his delyt al þat he may
                                
                                  And so bifelle sone after on a day
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                                  þis false Iuge as telleþ vs þe story
                                
                                  As he was woned sat in his consistory
                                
                                  And ȝaf his domes vpon sondry cas
                                
                                  This false clerk cam forþ a wel good paas
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                                  And seyde lord if þat it be ȝour wille /
                                
                                  As doþ me right vpon þis pitous bille
                                
                                  In which I pleyne vppon virginius
                                
                                  And if þat he wol seyn it is not þus

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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 429
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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