The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 563] 
                                  
                                  how cristes poeple he may to meschief bringe
                                
                                  God kepe vs from his fals dissimilynge
                                  Line 1073 
                                
                                  What wiste þis prest wiþ whom þat he delte
                                
                                  Ne of his harm comynge no þing he felte
                                
                                  O sely prest o sely Innocent
                                
                                  Wiþ coueytise anon þou schalt be blent
                                  Line 1077 
                                
                                  O graceles ful blynd is þy conceyt
                                
                                  No þing artow war of þe deceyt
                                
                                  Which þat þis fox y-schapen haþ to þe
                                
                                  his wyly wrenches þou mayst nouȝt fle
                                  Line 1081 
                                
                                  Wher-fore to go to þe conclusion
                                
                                  þat referreþ to þi confusion
                                
                                  vnhappy man anon I wol me hiȝe
                                
                                  To telle þin vnwitte and þy folye
                                  Line 1085 
                                
                                  And eek þe falsnesse of þat oþer wrecche
                                
                                  As ferforþ as my connynge wol strecche
                                
                                  This Chanon was my lord ȝe wolde weene
                                
                                  Sire oste in faith and by þe heuen quene
                                  Line 1089 
                                
                                  It was anoþer chanoun and nat he
                                
                                  That can an hundred fold more sotyltee
                                
                                  he haþ bytrayed folkes many tyme
                                
                                  Of his falsnesse it/ dulleþ me to Ryme
                                  Line 1093 
                                
                                  Euer whan I speke of his falshede
                                
                                  ffor schame of him my chekes wexen reede
                                
                                  Algates þey bygynne for to glowe
                                
                                  ffor reednesse haue I now right wel I knowe
                                  Line 1097 
                                
                                  In my visage for fumes diuerse
                                
                                  Of metals whiche ȝe haue herd me reherce [folio 185b] 
                                
                                  Consumed and wasted han my reednesse /
                                
                                  Now take heede of þis Chanons cursednesse
                                  Line 1101 
                                
                                  Sire quod he to þe prest lat ȝoure man gon
                                
                                  ffor quyk siluer þat we it hadde anon
                                
                                  And lat him bringe vnces tuo or þre
                                
                                  And whan he comeþ as faste schul ȝe see
                                  Line 1105 
                                
                                  A wonder þing which ȝe say neuer ar þis
                                
                                  Sire quod þe prest it schal ben don y-wys

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 413
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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