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

                                
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                                  Yet hath this bryd / by .xx. thousand fold
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                                  Leuere in a fforest þat is rude and cold
                                
                                  Gon ete wormes / and swich wrecchednesse
                                
                                  ffor euere this bryd / wol doon his bisynesse
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                                  To eschape out of his Cage / if he may
                                
                                  His libertee / this bryd desireth ay
                                
                                  ¶ Lat take a Cat and fostre hym wel with Milk
                                
                                  And tendre flessh / and make his couche of silk
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                                  And lat hym seen a Mous / go by the wal
                                
                                  Anon he weyueth / Milk / and flessh and al
                                
                                  And euery deyntee / þat is in that hous
                                
                                  Swich appetit hath he / to ete a Mous
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                                  Lo / heere hath lust his domynacion
                                
                                  And appetit flemeth discrecion
                                
                                  ¶ A she wolf hath also / a vileyns kynde
                                
                                  The lewedeste wolf / þat she may fynde
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                                  And leest of reputacion / that wol she take
                                
                                  In tyme / whan hire lust to han a make
                                
                                  ¶ Alle thise ensamples / speke I by thise men
                                
                                  That ben vntrewe / but no thyng by wommen
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                                  ffor men han euere / a likerous appetit
                                
                                  On lower thyng / to parformen hir delit
                                
                                  Than on hire wyues / be they neuer so faire
                                
                                  Ne neuer so trewe / ne so debonaire
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                                  fflessh is so newfangel / with meschance
                                
                                  That we ne konne / in no thyng han plesance
                                
                                  That sowneth in to vertu / any while
                                
                                  ¶ This Phebus / which þat thoughte vp on no gile
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                                  Deceyued was / for al his iolitee
                                
                                  ffor vnder hym / another hadde she
                                
                                  A man / of litel reputacion
                                
                                  Nat worth to Phebus in comparison
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                                  The moore harm is / it happeth ofte so
                                
                                  Of which ther cometh / muchel harm and wo
                                
                                  And so bifel / whan Phebus was absent
                                
                                  His wyf anon / hath for hire lemman sent

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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 251
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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