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

                                
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                                  To do that same thyng or do it noght
                                
                                  Though god forwoot it/ er þat I was wroght
                                
                                  Or if his wityng streyneth neuer a del
                                
                                  But by necessitee / condicionel
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                                  I wol nat han to do / of swich matere
                                
                                  My tale is of a Cok as ye may heere
                                
                                  That took his conseil / of his wyf/ with sorwe
                                
                                  To walken in the yerd / vp-on that morwe
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                                  That he hadde met the dreem / þat I yow tolde
                                
                                  Wommens conseils / be ful ofte colde
                                
                                  Wommannes conseil / broghte vs first to wo [folio 105a] 
                                
                                  And made Adam / fro Paradys to go
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                                  Ther as he was / ful myrie and wel at ese
                                
                                  But for I noot to whom it myghte displese
                                
                                  If I conseil of wommen / wolde blame
                                
                                  Passe ouer / for I seyde it in my game
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                                  Rede Auctours / where they trete of swich matere
                                
                                  And what they seyn of wommen heere
                                
                                  Thise ben the Cokkes wordes and nat myne
                                
                                  I kan noon harm / on no womman deuyne
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                                  ¶ ffaire in the Sond / to bathe hire myrily
                                
                                  Lyth Pertelote / and alle hire sustres by
                                
                                  Agayn the sonne / and Chauntecler so free
                                
                                  Song myrier / than the Mermayde in the see
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                                  ffor Phisiologus / seith sikerly
                                
                                  How þat they syngen / wel and myrily
                                
                                  ¶ And so bifel / that as he caste his eye
                                
                                  Among the wortes / on a Boterflye
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                                  He was war of this fox / þat lay ful lowe
                                
                                  No thyng ne liste hym thanne for to crowe
                                
                                  But cryde anon / cok cok and vp he sterte
                                
                                  As man / þat was affrayd in his herte
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                                  ffor naturelly / a beest desireth flee
                                
                                  ffro his contrarie / if he may it see
                                
                                  Though he neuere erst hadde seye it with his eye
                                
                                  This Chauntecler / whan he gan hym espye

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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 239
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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