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

                                
                                     [6-text p 583] 
                                  
                                  Hire lemman certes þis is a kauissch speche
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                                  fforȝiueþ it me and þat I ȝou beseche
                                
                                  The wyse Plato saiþ as ȝe may rede
                                
                                  þe worde moot need acorde wiþ þe dede
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                                  ȝif men schal telle proprely a þing [folio 259a] 
                                
                                  The word moot/ cosyn be to þe workyng
                                
                                  I am a boystous man riht þus say I
                                
                                  Ther is no difference trewely
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                                  Betwix a wyf þat is of heih degre
                                
                                  If of hire body dishoneste sche be
                                
                                  And a pouere wenche othir þan þis
                                
                                  If it so be þey werke boþe amys
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                                  But þat þe gentil is in staat aboue
                                
                                  Sche schal be cleped his lady as in loue
                                
                                  And for þat oþer is a pouer womman
                                
                                  Sche schal be cleped his wenche or his lemman
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                                  And god it woot myn owne deere broþer
                                
                                  Men leyn þat oon as lowe as liþ þat oþer
                                
                                  Right so betwixe a titles tyraunt
                                
                                  And an outlawe or a þeef erraunt
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                                  The same I say þer is no difference /
                                
                                  To alisaundre was tolde þis sentence /
                                
                                  That for þe tyraunt is of grettere might
                                
                                  By force of meyne for to sleen doun right
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                                  And brenne hous and home and make al playn
                                
                                  Lo þerfore is he cleped a Capitayn
                                
                                  ¶ And for þe outlawe haþ but smal meigne
                                
                                  And may not doon so gret an harm as he
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                                  Ne bringe a Contre to so gret mescheef
                                
                                  Men clepen him an outlawe or a þeef
                                
                                  But for I am a man not texted wel
                                
                                  I wol not telle of Tytus neuer a deel
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                                  I wol go to my tale as I began
                                
                                  Whan Phebus [wyf] hadde sent for hire lemman
                                
                                  Anon þey wroughten alle here lust volage
                                
                                  This white crowe þat heng ay in þe kage

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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 595
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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