The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  And speke as renably faire and wele
                                
                                  As to þe phitonessa did Samuele
                                
                                  And ȝit wil sum men saie it was nouht he
                                
                                  .I. do no fors of ȝoure diuinite
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                                  Bot o þinge warne .I. þe .I. wil nouht Iape
                                
                                  Thou wilt algates wite howe we be schape
                                
                                  Thou schalt her-after-ward my broþer dere
                                
                                  Come where þe nedeþ not of me to lore
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                                  For þou schalt be þin owen experience
                                
                                  Com in to þe chaier to rede þis sentence
                                
                                  Better þan virgile while he was on lyue
                                
                                  Or dante also nowe lat vs ride belyue
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                                  For .I. wil holde company wiþ þe
                                
                                  Til it be so þat þou for-sake me
                                
                                  Naie quod Somnour þat schal not be-tide
                                
                                  .I. am a ȝoman knowe is ful wide
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                                  Mi trouþe wil .I. holde to þe as in þis caas
                                
                                  For þeih þou were þe deuel Sathanas
                                
                                  My trouþe will .I. holde to my broþer
                                
                                  As .I. am sworne and iche of vs to oþere
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                                  For to be trewe broþer in þis caas
                                
                                  And broþer wee goon to owre purchas
                                
                                  Take þu þi part what men wil þe ȝeue
                                
                                  And .I. schal myne þus maye we boþe leuen
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                                  And if þat any of vs haue more þan oþer
                                
                                  lat him be trewe and part it wiþ his broþer
                                
                                  .I. graunt quod þe deuel be my feye
                                
                                  And wiþ þat worde þei reden forþe þeire weie
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                                  And riht att þe entringe of þe tounes ende
                                
                                  To whiche þe somnour schope him for to wende
                                
                                  He sawhe a cart þat charged was wiþ haye
                                
                                  Whiche þat a carter droue forþ on his waye
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                                  Dep was þe way for whyche þe cart stode
                                
                                  þis carter smote and striued as he war woode
                                
                                  Heyt brok heyt scotte what spare we fore þe stones
                                
                                  The fende quod he ȝowe fette boþe bodi and bones

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 257
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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