[6-text p 300]
And first I shrewe my self / bothe blood and bones
If thow bigile me / any ofter than ones
Thow shalt namoore / thurgh thy flaterye
Do me to synge / and wynken with myn eye
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ffor he þat wynketh / whan he sholde see
Al wilfully / god lat hym neuere thee
¶ Nay quod the fox / but god yeue hym meschance
That is / so vndiscret/ of gouernance
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That Iangleth / whan he sholde holde his pees
¶ Lo swich it is / for to be recchelees
And necligent and truste on flaterye
But ye / þat holden this tale a folye
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As of a fox / or of a cok and hen
Taketh the moralitee / goode men
ffor Seint Poul seith / þat al that writen is
To oure doctryne / it is ywrite ywis
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Taketh the fruyt and lat the chaf be stille
Now goode god / if þat it be thy wille
As seith my lord / so make vs alle goode men [Dominus Archie|piscopus Cantu|ariensis]
And brynge vs / to his heye blisse Amen [6-text p 576]
¶ Here is ended / the Nonnes Preestes tale. [[The Manciple's Prologue follows in the MS.]]
