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

                                
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                                  The gees for feere / flowen ouer the trees
                                
                                  Out of the hyue / cam the swarm of bees
                                
                                  So hydous was the noyse / a benedicite
                                
                                  Certes / he Iakke Straw / and his meynee
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                                  Ne made neuere showtes / half so shrille
                                
                                  Whan þat they wolden / any flemyng kille
                                
                                  As thilke day / was maad vp-on the fox
                                
                                  Of bras / they broghten bemys / and of box
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                                  Of horn / of boon / in whiche they blewe and powped
                                
                                  And ther with al / they skryked and they howped
                                
                                  It semed / as þat heuene sholde falle
                                
                                  Now goode men / I prey yow herkneth alle
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                                  Lo / how ffortune / turneth sodeynly
                                
                                  The hope / and pryde eek of hire enemy
                                
                                  This cok þat lay vp-on the foxes bak
                                
                                  In al his drede / vn-to the fox he spak
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                                  And seyde sire / if þat I were as ye
                                
                                  Yit sholde I seyn / as wys god helpe me
                                
                                  Turneth ayein ye proude cherles alle
                                
                                  A verray pestilence / vp-on yow falle
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                                  Now I am come / vn-to this wodes syde
                                
                                  Maugree youre heed / the cok shal here abyde
                                
                                  I wol hym ete in feith / and that anon
                                
                                  ¶ The fox answerde / in feith it shal be don
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                                  And [as] he spak that word / al sodeynly
                                
                                  This cok / brak from his mouth delyuerly
                                
                                  And hye vp on a tree / he fley anon [folio 107a] 
                                
                                  ¶ And whan the fox say / þat he was gon
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                                  Allas quod he / o Chauntecler Allas
                                
                                  I haue to yow quod he / ydon trespas
                                
                                  In as muche / as I maked yow aferd
                                
                                  Whan I yow hente / and broghte in-to this yerd
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                                  But sire / I dide it in no wikke entente
                                
                                  Com doun / and I shal telle yow what I mente
                                
                                  I shal seye sooth to yow / god help me so
                                
                                  ¶ Nay thanne quod he / I shrewe vs bothe two

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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 243
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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