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

                                
                                     [6-text p 584] 
                                  
                                  Bihelde hire werk and seyde neuer a word
                                  Line 241 
                                
                                  And whan þat home was come Phebus þe lord
                                
                                  This crowe sange cokkow cokkow cokkow
                                
                                  What bryd quoþ Phebus what song syngest þou
                                  Line 244 
                                
                                  Ne were þou wont so meryly to synge [folio 259b] 
                                
                                  þat to myn herte it was a reioisschinge
                                
                                  To here þi voys allas what song is þis
                                
                                  By god quod he I synge nought amys
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                                  Phebus quod he for al þi worþinesse
                                
                                  ffor alle þy beaute and þyn gentilnesse
                                
                                  ffor alle þi song and al þi menstralcye
                                
                                  ffor al þi waytyng blered is þin ye
                                  Line 252 
                                
                                  Wiþ on of litel reputacion
                                
                                  Nought worþ to þe as in comparison
                                
                                  þe mountance of a gnatte so mote I þriue
                                
                                  ffor on þy bed þy wyff / I say him swyue
                                  Line 256 
                                
                                  What wole ȝe more þe crowe anon him tolde
                                
                                  By sadde tokenes and by wordes bolde
                                
                                  How þat his wyf hadde doon hire leccherie
                                
                                  him to gret schame and to gret vilanye
                                  Line 260 
                                
                                  And tolde him ofte he say it wiþ his eyen
                                
                                  þis Phebus gan awayward for to wryen
                                
                                  him þought his sorwful herte brast a tuo /
                                
                                  His bowe he bente and sette þer-Inne a floo
                                  Line 264 
                                
                                  And in his Ire þan haþ he his wif y-slayn
                                
                                  This is þeffecte þer is nomore to sayn
                                
                                  ffor sorwe of which he brak his mynstralcye
                                
                                  Boþe harpe and lewte gyterne and Sawterye
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                                  And eek he brak his arwes and his bowe
                                
                                  And after þat þus spak he to þe crowe
                                
                                  Traytour quod he wiþ tonge of Scorpion
                                
                                  Thou hast me brought to my confusion
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                                  Allas þat I was wrought why nere I ded
                                
                                  O deere wyf o gemme of lustyhed
                                
                                  That were to me so sadde and eek so trewe
                                
                                  Now lyes þou deed wiþ face pale of hewe /

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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 596
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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