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

                                
                                     [6-text p 308] 
                                  
                                  I wol proue it and fynde good witnesse
                                
                                  That soþ is þat my bille wol expresse
                                
                                  þe Iuge answerde of þis in his absence
                                
                                  I may not ȝiue diffinityf sentence
                                  Line 172 
                                
                                  let don him calle and I wol gladly heere
                                
                                  Thou schalt haue right and no wrong heere
                                
                                  Virginius cam to wite þe Iuges wille
                                
                                  And right anon was rad þis cursed bille /
                                  Line 176 
                                
                                  The sentence of it was as ȝe schul heere
                                
                                  To ȝou my lord sire Apius so deere
                                
                                  Scheweþ ȝoure pouere seruant Claudius
                                
                                  how þat a knight called virginius
                                  Line 180 
                                
                                  Aȝens þe lawe aȝeins alle equite
                                
                                  holdeþ expres aȝeins þe will of me
                                
                                  my seruaunt which þat is my þral by right
                                
                                  Which from myn hous was stolen on a night
                                  Line 184 
                                
                                  Whils sche was ful ȝong I wol it preue
                                
                                  By witnesse lord so þat ȝe ȝou not greue
                                
                                  Sche is nought his doughter what so he say
                                
                                  Wherfore my lord þe Iuge to ȝou I pray
                                  Line 188 
                                
                                  ȝelde me my þralle if þat it be ȝour wille
                                
                                  lo þis was al þe sentence of þe bille
                                
                                  Virgineus gan vpon þe clerk biholde
                                
                                  But hastily er he his tale tolde /
                                  Line 192 
                                
                                  he wolde haue defended it as scholde a knight [folio 193b] 
                                
                                  And by witnesse of many a trewe wight
                                
                                  That al was fals þat seyde his aduersarie
                                
                                  This cursed Iuge wolde no lenger tarie /
                                  Line 196 
                                
                                  Ne here a word more of virgineus
                                
                                  But ȝaf his Iuggement and seyde þus
                                
                                  I deme anon þis clerk his seruaunt haue
                                
                                  þou schalt no lenger in þin hous hire saue
                                  Line 200 
                                
                                  Go bring hire forth and put hire in oure warde
                                
                                  þis clerk schal haue his þral þus I awarde /
                                
                                  And whan þis worþi knight virgineus /
                                
                                  þurgh þe assent of þe Iuge apius

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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 430
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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