The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
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                                  ffor this was outrely / his ful entente
                                
                                  To slen hem bothe / and neuere to repente
                                
                                  ¶ And forth he goth / no lengere wold he tarie
                                
                                  In to the toun / vn-to a potecarie
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                                  And preyed him / that he him wolde selle
                                
                                  Som poison / that he myght his rattes quelle
                                
                                  And eke there was a polkat / in his hawe
                                
                                  That as he seide / his capouns had I-slawe
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                                  And fayn he wolde wreke him / if he myght
                                
                                  On vermyn / that destroyed him by nyght
                                
                                  The Potecarie answered / and thow shalt haue
                                
                                  A thyng / that also god my soule saue [folio 148b] 
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                                  In al this world / there is no creature
                                
                                  That ete or dronke hath / of this confiture
                                
                                  Nat but the mountaunce / of a corn of whete
                                
                                  That he ne shal / his lyf a-non for-lete
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                                  Ȝa sterue he shal / and that in lasse while
                                
                                  Than thow wolt gon a pase / nat but a myle
                                
                                  The poyson is so strong / and violent
                                
                                  This cursed man / hath in his hand I-hent
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                                  This poyson in a box / and sithe he ran
                                
                                  In-to the nexte strete / vn-to a man
                                
                                  And borwed him / large botelles thre
                                
                                  And in the two / hise poyson poured he
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                                  The thridde he kept clene / for his drynke
                                
                                  ffor al the nyght / he shop him for to swynke
                                
                                  In cariyng of the gold / out of that place
                                
                                  And whan this Riotour / with sory grace
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                                  had filled with wyn / hise grete botelles thre
                                
                                  To hise felawes / a-geyn repaireth he
                                
                                  What nedeth it / to sermone of it more
                                
                                  ffor right as they had cast / his deth bifore
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                                  Right so they han him slayn / and that a-noon
                                
                                  And whan that this was don / thus spak that oon
                                
                                  Now late vs sitte and drynke / and make vs merie
                                
                                  And afterward / we wyln his body berie

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 385
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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