[6-text p 300]
And first I shrewe my self / bothe blood and bones
If thou bigyle me / any ofter than ones
Thou shalt na moore / thurgh thy flaterye
Do me to synge / and wynke with myn eye
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ffor he that wynketh / whan he sholde see
Al wilfully / god lat him neuere thee
¶ Nay quod the fox / but god yeue hym meschaunce
That is so / vndiscreet of gouernaunce
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That Iangleth / whan he sholde holde his pees
¶ Lo swich it is / for to be recchelees
And necligent and truste on flaterye
¶ But ye / that holden / this tale a folye
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As of a fox / or of a Cok and Hen [folio 189b]
Taketh the moralite / goode men
ffor seint Paul seith / þat al that writen is
To oure doctrine / it is ywrite ywis
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Taketh the fruyt and lat the chaf be stille
Now goode god / if that it be thy wille
As seith my lord / so make vs alle goode men [¶ scilicet domi|nus Archiepis|copus Cantuari|ensis]
And brynge vs / to his heighe blisse Amen
¶ Heere is ended / the Nonnes preestes tale .
