Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

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

The pykpurs and eek þe pale drede The smyler wiþ þe knyf vnder þe cloke The schepene brennyng wiþ þe blake smoke 2000 The tresoun of þe morthering in þe bedde The open werre wiþ woundes all bibledde Contek wiþ bloody knyf and scharp manace Al ful of schrikyng was þat sory place 2004 The sleer of himself yet saugh I þere His herte hath baþed al his here The nayl y-dryuen in þe schood on night The colde deth wiþ mouþ gapende vpright 2008 Amyddes of þe temple sat meschance With disconfort and sory contenance yet saugh I woodnesse laughyng in his rage Armed compleint / out hees and feers outrage 2012 The karoigne in þe busk wiþ þrote y-korue A þousand y-slayn and nought of qualme y-storue [folio 29a] The Tiraunt with his preye his force thraste / The toun destroied þer was noþing lafte 2016 yet saugh I brent þe schippes hoppestereres The hunte strangled wiþ þe wilde breeres / The sowe freten þe child right in þe cradel The Cook I-scalded for al his longe ladel 2020 Nought was forgeten by þe infortune of marte / The carter ouer-Riden wiþ his carte vnder þe wheel ful lowe he lay a doun Ther were also of martis diuisioun 2024 The barbour and þe bocher and þe smith That forge scharpe swerdes on his stith And all aboue depeynted in a toure Saugh I conqueste in gret honoure 2028 With þe scharpe swerd ouer his heed Hangynge by a subtyl twyned þreed Depeynted was þe slaughtre of Iulius Of grete Nero and of Anthonius 2032 Al be þat ilke time þei were vnborn
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The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,
1868-[1869]

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