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

                                
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                                  [ [Rats]  [folio 83b] An]d to another knyght comanded he
                                
                                  Go leed hym to the deeth / I charge thee
                                
                                  And happed / as they wente by the weye
                                
                                  Toward the place / ther he sholde deye
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                                  The knyght cam / which men wenden had be deed
                                
                                  Thanne thoghten they / it were the beste reed
                                
                                  To lede hem bothe / to the Iuge agayn
                                
                                  They seyden / lord / the knyght ne hath nat slayn
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                                  His felawe / heere he stant hool alyue
                                
                                  ¶ Ye shul be deed quod he / so moot I thryue
                                
                                  This is to seyn / bothe oon and two and thre
                                
                                  And to the firste knyght right thus spak/ he
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                                  ¶ I dampned thee / thou most algate be deed
                                
                                  And thow also / most nedes lese thyn heed
                                
                                  ffor thow art cause / why thy felawe deyth
                                
                                  And to the thridde knyght right thus he seith
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                                  Thow hast nat doon / that I comanded thee
                                
                                  And thus he dide / do sleen hem alle thre
                                
                                  ¶ Irous Cambyses / was eek dronkelewe
                                
                                  And ay delited hym / to been a shrewe
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                                  And so bifel / a lord of his meynee
                                
                                  That louede / vertuous moralitee
                                
                                  Seyde on a day / bitwix hem two right thus
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                                  ¶ A lord is 2lost if he be vicius2 [[2_2 in a later hand]] 
                                
                                  And dronkenesse / is eek a foul record
                                
                                  Of any man / and namely in a lord
                                
                                  Ther is ful many an eighe / and many an ere
                                
                                  Awaityng on a lord / he noot nat where
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                                  ffor goddes loue / drynk moore attemprely
                                
                                  Wyn maketh man / to lesen wrecchedly
                                
                                  His mynde / and eek his lymes euerychon
                                
                                  ¶ The reuers shaltow se / quod he anon
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                                  And preue it by thyn owene experience
                                
                                  That wyn ne dooth to folk no swich offence
                                
                                  Ther is no wyn / bireueth me my myght
                                
                                  Of hond ne foot ne of myne eyen sight

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 189
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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