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

                                
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                                  And for despite he dranke ful muche more
                                
                                  An .C. parte þan he hadd done to-fore
                                
                                  And riht a-none þis cursed wreche
                                
                                  Lete þis knyhtes son be-forne him fecche
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                                  And commandeinge hem þei schol be-for him stonde
                                
                                  And sodanly he toke his bowe on honde
                                
                                  And vp þe stringe he pulle to his ere
                                
                                  And wiþ an arwe he slowe þe childe riht þere
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                                  Nowe weþe haue .I. seker honde or none
                                
                                  Quod he is al my witte and my witte agone
                                
                                  Haþe wyne bereued me my eyesiht
                                
                                  What scholde .I. tell þe Ansewere of þe knyht
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                                  His son was sleyne þere is no more to seie
                                
                                  Beþe warre þer-fore wiþ lordes howe ȝe pleie
                                
                                  Singeþ Placebo and .I. schal. If .I. can
                                
                                  Bot ȝif it be vn-to a pouer man
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                                  To a pore man he schold his vices tell
                                
                                  Bot nouȝt to a lorde þouhe he schold go to hell
                                
                                  Lo Irrous Sirus þilke percien
                                
                                  How he destreiede þe river of Gysen
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                                  For þat an hors of his was drenched þere-inne
                                
                                  Whan þat he wente babiloyne to wynne
                                
                                  He maad þat þe riuer was so smale
                                
                                  þat wemmen mihten wade ouer ale
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                                  Lo what seide he þat so wele teche can
                                
                                  Ne be no felow to none yrous man.
                                
                                  Ne wiþ no wood man walke be þe waie
                                
                                  Leste þe repent .I. wil no more seie
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                                  Now thomas leue broþer leue þin Ire
                                
                                  þou schalt me finde als iust as is a swire
                                
                                  Holde nouht þe deueles knyf ay þat þin herte
                                
                                  Þine Anger doþe þe al to sore smarte
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                                  Bot schew to me al þin confession [folio 112a] 
                                
                                  Nay quod þe seke man be seint Simon
                                
                                  .I. haue be schreue þis daie att my curate
                                
                                  .I. haue him tolde al holy myne estate

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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 274
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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