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

                                
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                                  As faire as eny man in Engelond
                                
                                  Whiche were me y-ȝoue by þe popes hond
                                
                                  If eny of ȝou wole of deuocion
                                
                                  Offren and haue myn absolucion
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                                  Comeþ forþ anon and kneleþ doun heere
                                
                                  And ȝe schuln haue my pardon þat is deere
                                
                                  Oþer elles takeþ pardoun as ȝe wende
                                
                                  Al newe and freissche at euery tounes ende
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                                  So þat ȝe offren alway newe and newe /
                                
                                  Nobles and pens which þat ben good and trewe
                                
                                  It is an honour to euerich þat is heere
                                
                                  þat ȝe may haue a suffisaunt pardonere
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                                  To assoille ȝou in cuntre as I ryde
                                
                                  ffor auentures which þat may betyde
                                
                                  ffor peraduenture þer may falle on or tuo
                                
                                  Doun of his hors and breke his necke a tuo
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                                  loke which a suerte it is to ȝou alle
                                
                                  þat I am in ȝour felaschipe y-falle
                                
                                  þat may assoille ȝou boþe more and lasse
                                
                                  Whan þat þe soule schal fro þe body passe /
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                                  I rede þat oure hooste schal begynne
                                
                                  ffor he is most envoluped in synne
                                
                                  Comeþ forþ sire Ost and offreþ first anon
                                
                                  And þou schalt kisse þe relikes euerychoon
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                                  ȝe for a grote vnbokel anon þy purs
                                
                                  Nay nay quod he þenne haue I cristes curs
                                
                                  Let be quod he it / schal nouȝt be so þeche
                                
                                  þou woldest make me kesse þin olde breche [folio 204a] 
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                                  And swere it were a relyk of a seint
                                
                                  þough it were wiþ þyn foundement depeynt
                                
                                  But by þe Crosse which þat seint Eleyne fand
                                
                                  I wolde I hadde þine coyllons in myn hand
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                                  In stede of relikes oþer of seintuary
                                
                                  let cutte hem of I wol þe helpe hem cary
                                
                                  þey schuln be schryned in an hogges tord
                                
                                  þis pardoner answerde nouȝt a word

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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 453
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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