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

                                
                                     [6-text p 577] 
                                  
                                  Wel quod þe maunciple if it þe may don ese
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                                  To þe sir Cook and to no wight displese
                                
                                  Which þat heer rydeþ in þis companye /
                                
                                  And þat oure host wole of his curtesye
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                                  I wole as now excuse þe of þin tale [folio 256b] 
                                
                                  ffor in good feiþ þi visage is ful pale
                                
                                  Thin eyen dasewen soþly as me þinkeþ
                                
                                  And wel I woot þi breþ ful soure stinkeþ
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                                  That scheweþ wel þou art nought wel disposed
                                
                                  Of me certeyn þou schalt nought ben y-glosed
                                
                                  Se how he goneth lo his drunken wight
                                
                                  As þough he wolde vs swolwe anon right
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                                  hald clos þin mouþ man by þyn fader kyn
                                
                                  The deuyl of helle sette his foot þerin
                                
                                  This cursed breth wol infecte vs alle
                                
                                  ffy stynkynge swyn fy foule mote þe falle
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                                  Takeþ heede sires of þis lusty man
                                
                                  Now sweete sire wole ȝe iuste at þe van
                                
                                  Ther-to me þenkeþ ȝe ben wel y-schape
                                
                                  I trowe þat ȝe haue drunken wyn ape
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                                  And þat is whan men pleye wiþ a straw /
                                
                                  And wiþ his speche þe Cooke wax al wraw
                                
                                  And on þe maunciple bygan he nodde faste
                                
                                  ffor lakke of speche and doun þe hors him caste
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                                  Wher as he lay til þat men him vp took
                                
                                  This was a fayr Chiuacheef of a cook
                                
                                  Allas he ne hadde holde him by his ladel
                                
                                  And er þat he aȝein were in his sadel
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                                  Ther was a gret schowuyng boþe to and fro
                                
                                  To lifte him vp and mochil care and woo
                                
                                  So vnweldy was þis sely pallede goste
                                
                                  And to þe maunciple þenne spak oure Oste
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                                  By cause þat drynke haþ dominacion
                                
                                  Vpon þis man by my Sauacion
                                
                                  I trowe he lewedly wolde telle his tale
                                
                                  ffor were it wyn or olde or moysty ale

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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 589
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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