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

                                
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                                  Of youre fader / and of his subtiltee
                                
                                  Now syngeth sire / for seynte charitee
                                
                                  Lat se / konne ye youre fader countrefete
                                
                                  ¶ This Chauntecler / hise wynges gan to bete
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                                  As man þat koude / his trayson nat espie
                                
                                  So was he rauysshed / with his flaterie
                                
                                  ¶ Allas ye lordes / many a fals flatour
                                
                                  Is in youre court and many a losengeour
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                                  That plesen yow wel moore / by my feyth
                                
                                  Than he / þat soothfastnesse vn-to yow seith
                                
                                  Redeth Ecclesiaste / of flaterye
                                
                                  Beth war ye lordes / of hir trecherye
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                                  ¶ This Chauntecler / stood hye vp on his toos
                                
                                  Strecchynge his nekke / and heeld hise eyen cloos
                                
                                  And gan to crowe / lowde for the nones
                                
                                  And daun Russelle the fox / stirte vp atones
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                                  And by the gargat hente Chauntecler
                                
                                  And on his bak / toward the wode hym beer
                                
                                  ffor yet ne was ther no man / þat hym sewed [folio 106a] 
                                
                                  ¶ O destynee / þat mayst nat ben eschewed
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                                  Allas þat Chauntecler / fly fro the bemes
                                
                                  Allas / his wif/ ne roghte nat of dremes
                                
                                  And on a friday / fil al this meschance
                                
                                  ¶ O Venus / þat art goddesse of plesance
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                                  Syn þat thy seruant was this Chauntecler
                                
                                  And in thy seruyce / dide al his power
                                
                                  Moore for delit than world to multiplie
                                
                                  Why woldestow suffre hym / on thy day to dye
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                                  ¶ O Gaufred / deere maister souerayn
                                
                                  That whan / thy worthy kyng Richard was slayn
                                
                                  With shot compleynedest his deth so soore
                                
                                  Why ne hadde I now / thy sentence and thy loore
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                                  The friday for to chide / as diden ye
                                
                                  ffor on a ffriday / soothly slayn was he
                                
                                  Thanne wolde I shewe yow / how þat I kowde pleyne
                                
                                  ffor Chaunteclerys drede / and for his peyne

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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 241
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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