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

                                
                                     [6-text p 582] 
                                  
                                  ȝet haþ þis bridde by .xx. þousand folde
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                                  Leuer in a fforest þat is wilde and colde
                                
                                  Gon ete wormes and such wrecchedenesse
                                
                                  ffor euer þis bridde wol doon his busynesse
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                                  To eskape out of his cage when he may [folio 258b] 
                                
                                  his liberte þe bridde desireþ ay
                                
                                  Let take a catte and fostre him wel wiþ melk
                                
                                  An tendre fleissch and make his couche of selk
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                                  And let him seen a mous go by þe walle
                                
                                  And anon he weyueþ milke fleissche and alle
                                
                                  And euery deynte þat is in þat hous
                                
                                  Such appetyt haþ sche to ete a mous
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                                  Lo he[re] haþ luste his dampnacion
                                
                                  And appetyt flemyth discrecion
                                
                                  As þe wolf haþ also a vyleyns kynde
                                
                                  The lewedeste wolf þat sche may fynde
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                                  Of lest of reputacion þat wol sche take
                                
                                  In tyme whan hire luste to haue a make
                                
                                  Alle þise ensamples speke I by þese men
                                
                                  That ben vntrewe and noþing by wommen
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                                  ffor men han euere a likerous appetyt
                                
                                  On lowere þing to parforme here delyt
                                
                                  Then on here wyfes ben þay neuer so fayre
                                
                                  Ne neuer so trewe ne so debonaire
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                                  ffleissche is so newefongul wiþ meschance
                                
                                  That we ne konne in no þing han plesance
                                
                                  That sowneþ in to vertu eny while
                                
                                  This Phebus which þat þought vpon no gile
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                                  Desceyued was for alle his Iolite
                                
                                  ffor vnder him anoþer hadde sche
                                
                                  A man of litel reputacion
                                
                                  Nought worþ to Phebus in comparison
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                                  The more harm it is it happeþ ofte so
                                
                                  Of which þer comeþ mochil harme and wo
                                
                                  And so bifelle whan Phebus was absent
                                
                                  His wif anon haþ for hir lemman sent

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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 594
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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