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

                                
                                     [6-text p 381] 
                                  
                                  .I. paied att home for þi correccioun
                                
                                  Thou lext quod sche be my saluacioun
                                
                                  Ne was .I. neuer or now wedowe ne wif
                                
                                  Somned in-to ȝoure court in al my lif
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                                  Ne neuer .I. was bot of my body trewe
                                
                                  To þe deuel blake and rouhe of hewe
                                
                                  Ȝif I. þi body. and my panne also
                                
                                  And whan þe deuel herd hir curs so
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                                  Vpon hir knes he seid in þis maner
                                
                                  Now Mable myne owen moder dere
                                
                                  es þis ȝowre wil in ernest þat ȝe seie
                                
                                  The deuel quod sche fette him ar he deie.
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                                  And panne and al but he will him repent [folio 106b] 
                                
                                  Naie olde stote þat is nouȝt myne entent
                                
                                  Quod þis Somnour for to repent me
                                
                                  For any þinge þat .I. haue hadde of þee
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                                  .I. wolde .I. hadde þi smokke and euery cloþe
                                
                                  Nowe broþere quod þe deuel be nouht wroþe
                                
                                  This body and þis panne is my be riht
                                
                                  Thou schalt wiþ me to hell ȝut to-nyht
                                  Line 1636 
                                
                                  Where þou schalt know of oure priuete
                                
                                  More þan a maistre of diuinite.
                                
                                  And wiþ þat worde þis foule fende him hente
                                
                                  Body and soule he wiþ þe deuel went
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                                  Where þat Somnours han her heritage
                                
                                  And god þat maad after his ymage
                                
                                  Mankinde saue and gide vs al and sume
                                
                                  An leue þis Somnour good man to be-come
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                                  Lordinges .I. couþe haue tolde ȝoue quod þis frere
                                
                                  Hadde .I. had leiser for þis Somnour here
                                
                                  After þe tixt Crist Poule and Iohn
                                
                                  And of oure oþer doctours mony on
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                                  Suche peines þat ȝoure hert myht a-grise
                                
                                  Albeit so no tunge maie devise
                                
                                  þouht þat .I. myht a þousand wynter tell
                                
                                  þe peyne of þilke corsid house of hell

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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 260
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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