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

                                
                                     [6-text p 289] 
                                  
                                  As sone as dei he went oute of toune
                                
                                  This man gan fal in grete suspeccion
                                
                                  Remembreinge on his dremes þat he mete
                                
                                  And forþe he goþe no longere wolde he let [folio 220b] 
                                  Line 4224 
                                
                                  Vnto þe west gate of þe toune & fonde
                                
                                  A donge cart as he went to donge þe londe
                                
                                  þat was araide in þe same wyse
                                
                                  As ȝe haue herde þe dede man deuise
                                  Line 4228 
                                
                                  And wiþ an hardy hert he gan to crie
                                
                                  Vengeance & Iustice of þis felonye
                                
                                  Myne felawe murdre is þe same nyht
                                
                                  And in þis carte he lieþ gapeinge vpriht
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                                  [I cry out on the mynistres quod he [MS Reg 17 D xv folio 277b]  [Not in MS Reg. 18 C ii (nor are l. 4112, 4114); not in Harl. 1758.]] 
                                
                                  That shulden kepe. and rule this citee
                                
                                  Harrow allas. hire lith my felaw slayne [folio 278a] 
                                
                                  What shuld I more. vnto this tale sayne
                                
                                  The peple vp stert. and cast the cart to ground
                                
                                  And in the myddil of the dung. ther they found] [[MS Reg. ex|tract ends]] 
                                
                                  The de[de] man þat murded was al newe
                                
                                  O blisful god þat art so iust & trewe
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                                  Lo howe þou be-wryest morder al weie
                                
                                  Mordre wil oute þat se we daie be daie
                                
                                  Mordre is so wlatesome & abomynable
                                
                                  To god þat is so Iuste & resonable
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                                  þat he ne wil nouht suffre it heled be
                                
                                  þei it abide a ȝere or two or þre
                                
                                  Mordre wil oute þis es myne conclusioune
                                
                                  And riht anone Ministres of þe same toune
                                  Line 4248 
                                
                                  And hente þe carter & sore him pynede
                                
                                  And eke the hostelere so ferre engynede
                                
                                  þat þei be-knewe here wykkednesse anone
                                
                                  And weren hanged be þe nekke bone
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                                  Here maie menne see þat dremes bien to drede
                                
                                  And certes in [the] same book .I. rede
                                
                                  Riht in þe next chapetre .I. rede of þis
                                
                                  .I. gabbe nouht so haue .I. Ioye & blis

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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 578
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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