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

                                
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                                  And loke þat þou reporte his name wel
                                
                                  Sire quod þis boye it nedeþ neuer a del
                                
                                  It was me told er ȝe came here to oures
                                
                                  He was parde an old felawe of ȝoures
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                                  Al sodeynly was he slayn to night /
                                
                                  ffor-drunke as he sate vp his benche vpright
                                
                                  Ther came a pryue þeef men cleped deþ
                                
                                  þat in his cuntre al þe poeple sleþ
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                                  And with his spere he smot his herte a tuo
                                
                                  And went his way wiþouten wordes mo
                                
                                  And maister er ȝe come in his presence /
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                                  he haþ a þousend slain þis pestilence /
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                                  Me þinkeþ it were necessarie /
                                
                                  ffor to be war of such an aduersarie /
                                
                                  Beþ redy for to mete him euermore /
                                
                                  þus taughte me my dame I say no more /
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                                  By seinte mary seyde þis tauernere
                                
                                  þe child saiþ soþ for he haþ slayn to ȝere
                                
                                  Hens ouer a myle wiþinne a gret village
                                
                                  Boþe man and womman child and page
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                                  I trowe his habitacion be þere /
                                
                                  To ben auysed gret wisedom it were /
                                
                                  Er þat he dede a man dishonour
                                
                                  Ȝe goddes armes quod þis ryetour
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                                  Is it/ such peril wiþ him for to mete
                                
                                  I schal him seeke by wey and eek by strete
                                
                                  I make avow to goddes digne bones
                                
                                  Herkne felawes we þre ben alle ones [folio 200b] 
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                                  let eche of vs halde vp his hand to oþer
                                
                                  And eche of vs bycome oþeres broþer
                                
                                  And we woln slee þis false traytour deþ
                                
                                  He schal be slayn he þat so many sleþ
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                                  By goddes dignite er it be night
                                
                                  To-gidre haue þese þre here hertes hight
                                
                                  To lyue and deye ilk of hem to oþer
                                
                                  As þough he were his owen sworne broþer

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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 446
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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