The Pardoner-Shipman Link
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For peraduenture þer maie fal on or tuo
Doune of his hors & breke his nekke a two
Looke whiche a surte it is to ȝowe al
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Þat .I. am in ȝoure felischipe yfal
Þat maie assoile ȝowe boþe more & lasse
Whan þat þe soule fro þe body passe
.I. rede þat oure oste schal beginne
For he is most envolupte in sinne
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Cōmeþ forþe sire oste & offer first anone
And þou schalt kisse re relikes euerychone
Ȝe for a grote vnbokel a none þi purce
Nay nay . haue .I. þan qd he cristes curce
Lat be qd he it schal not be so þeiche
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Þou woldests make me kisse þine olde breche
And swere it were a relik of a seint
Þouhe it were wiþ þi foundement depeint
Bot be cros þat seint Elyne fonde
.I. wold .I. had þi coylons in myne honde
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In stede of relikes oþer of seyntuarie
Let cutt hem of .I. wil þe helpe hem carie
Thei schoƚƚ be schryned in an hogges torde
This pardoner answerd nouht a worde
So wroþe he was he nold no worde seie
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Nowe qd oure oste .I. wil no longer pleie
Wiþ þe no wiþ none oþer angre mañ
Bott riht a none þe worþi knyht beganö
Whan þat he sawhe þat al þe peple louhe
No more of þis for it is riht ynouhe
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Sirö pardoner be meri & glad of chere
And ȝe sire oste þat bene to me so dere
I pray ȝowe þat ȝe kisse þe pardonere
And pardoner .I. praie þe þat þou drau þe nere
And as we dide now late vs lauhe & pleie
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Anone þei kisse & reden forþe þeire weye
Explicit fabula questoris ;
BOt þan spak oure Oste vnto maister schipmaū
Maister qd he to vs sūme tale tel ȝe caū
Where withe ȝe myht glad al þis company
If it were ȝoure pleseinge .I. wote wele sekurlye
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Sertes qd þis Schipman a tale .I. can teƚƚ
And þefore herkeneþ hyderward how þat .I. wil speƚƚ