Poetry & Verse
The Canterbury Tales. The Pardoner's Tale.
By Geoffrey ChaucerSource: Geoffrey Chaucer - PoetryDB (Public Domain)4654 words
THE PROLOGUE. OUR Hoste gan to swear as he were wood; "Harow!" quoth he, "by nailes and by blood, This was a cursed thief, a...
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THE PROLOGUE. OUR Hoste gan to swear as he were wood; "Harow!" quoth he, "by nailes and by blood, This was a cursed thief, a false justice. As shameful death as hearte can devise Come to these judges and their advoca's. Algate this sely maid is slain, alas! Alas! too deare bought she her beauty. Wherefore I say, that all day man may see That giftes of fortune and of nature Be cause of death to many a creature.…
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