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

                                
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                                  And toke his logeinge as it wolde fal
                                
                                  þat one of hem was loged in a stal
                                
                                  Ferre in a ȝerde wiþ oxen of þe plouhe
                                
                                  þe toþere man was loged wele y-nowhe
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                                  As was his aduentur or his fortune
                                
                                  That vs gouerneþ all as in comune
                                
                                  And so be-fel longe ar it were daie
                                
                                  þis man mette in his bedde þere he leye
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                                  Howe þat his felawe gan on him calle
                                
                                  And seid alas for in an oxe stalle
                                
                                  This nyht .I. schal be mordred þere .I. lye
                                
                                  Nowe helpe me dere broþere ar .I. deye;
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                                  In al haste come to me he seide.
                                
                                  This man oute of his slepe for fere abraide.
                                
                                  Bot whan þat he wakened out of his slepe
                                
                                  He turned him & toke of þis no kepe
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                                  Him þouht his drem was nouht bot a vanite
                                
                                  Thus twyes in his slepe dremed he
                                
                                  And att þe þredde time ȝit his felawe
                                
                                  Cam as him þouht .I. am nowe .I.-slawe
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                                  Be-holde my blode wounde depe & wide
                                
                                  Aryse vp erly in þe morne tyde
                                
                                  And att þe west gate of þe toune quod he
                                
                                  A cart ful of donge þere schalt þou see
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                                  In whiche my body is hidde ful priuelye
                                
                                  Do þilke cart areste boldelye
                                
                                  My golde caused my morder soþe to seyne
                                
                                  And tolde hym euery poynte howe was sleyne
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                                  Wiþ a ful pytous face pale of hewe
                                
                                  And trust wele his drem he fonde ful trewe
                                
                                  For on þe morne as sone as it was daie
                                
                                  To his felawes inne he toke þe riht waie
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                                  And whan he cam to þis oxe stall
                                
                                  Affeter his felawe he began to call
                                
                                  The Osteler answerd him anone
                                
                                  And seide sir ȝoure felawe is gone

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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 577
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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