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

                                
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                                  This storie / is also trewe I vndertake
                                
                                  As is the book/ of Launcelot de Lake
                                
                                  That wommen holde / in ful gret reuerence
                                
                                  Now wol I / torne agayn to my sentence
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                                  ¶ A Colfox / ful of sley Iniquitee
                                
                                  That in the groue / hadde woned yeres thre
                                
                                   [Rats.]  [folio 104b] [By] heigh ymaginacion / forncast
                                
                                  The same nyght thurgh-out the hegges brast
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                                  In-to the yerd / ther Chauntecler the faire
                                
                                  Was wont and eek hise wyues to repaire
                                
                                  And in a bed of wortes / stille he lay
                                
                                  Til it was passed / vndren of the day
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                                  Waitynge his tyme / on Chauntecler to falle
                                
                                  As gladly doon / thise homycides alle
                                
                                  That in awayt liggen / to mordre men
                                
                                  O false mordrour / lurkynge in thy den
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                                  O newe Scariot newe Genylon
                                
                                  ffalse dissimilour / o greek Synon
                                
                                  That broghtest Troye / al outrely to sorwe
                                
                                  O Chauntecler / acursed be that morwe
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                                  That thow in-to the yerd / flaugh fro the bemys
                                
                                  Thow were / ful wel y-warned by thy dremys
                                
                                  That thilke day / was perilous to thee
                                
                                  But what þat god forwoot moot nedes be
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                                  After the opynyon of certeyn clerkis
                                
                                  Witnesse on hym / þat any parfit clerk is
                                
                                  That in scole / is gret altercacion
                                
                                  In this matere / and gret disputison
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                                  And hath ben / of an hundred thousand men
                                
                                  But I ne kan / nat bulte it to the bren
                                
                                  As kan / the holy doctour Augustyn
                                
                                  Or Boece / or the Bisshope Bradwardyn
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                                  Wheither / þat goddes worthy forewityng
                                
                                  Streyneth me nedely / for to doon a thyng/
                                
                                  Nedely clepe I / symple necessitee
                                
                                  Or ellis / if fre choys / be graunted me

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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 238
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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