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

                                
                                     [6-text p 585] 
                                  
                                  fful gulteles þat durst I swere ywys
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                                  O rakel hound to don so foule amys
                                
                                  O trouble witte .O. Ire recheles
                                
                                  That vnauysed smytest gulteles /
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                                  O wan-truste ful of fals suspecion [folio 260a] 
                                
                                  Where was þy witte and þi discrecion
                                
                                  O euery man be war of rekelnesse
                                
                                  Ne trowe noþing wiþouten strong witnesse
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                                  Smyt nouȝt to sone er þat þou wite why
                                
                                  And be auysed wel and soburly
                                
                                  Or ȝe doon eny execucion
                                
                                  Vpon ȝoure Ire for suspecion
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                                  Allas a þousand folk han rakel Ire
                                
                                  ffully fordoon or brought hem in þe myre
                                
                                  Allas for sorwe I wil my selue slee
                                
                                  And to þe crowe O false þeef sayde he
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                                  I wol þe quyte anon þy false tale
                                
                                  þou songe whilom lyk a nightyngale
                                
                                  Now schalt þou false þeef þi song forgon
                                
                                  Eeke þin white feþeres euerichon
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                                  Ne neuer in alle þi lyue schalt þou speke
                                
                                  Thus schal men on a traitour ben awreke
                                
                                  Thou and þin hospreinge euere schuln be blake
                                
                                  Ne neuere swete noyse schul ȝe make /
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                                  But euer crye agayn tempest and reyn
                                
                                  In toknyng þat þurgh þe my wyf was slayn
                                
                                  And to þe crowe he sterte and þat anon
                                
                                  And pulled his white feþeres euerychon
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                                  and made him blak and reft him alle his song
                                
                                  And eek his speche and out at þe dore him slong
                                
                                  vnto þe deuel which I him betake /
                                
                                  And for þis caas ben alle crowes blake
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                                  Lordynges by þis ensample I ȝou preye
                                
                                  Beþ war and takeþ keepe what þat ȝe seye
                                
                                  Ne telleþ neuer no man in ȝour lyff/
                                
                                  how þat anoþer man haþ dight his wyf

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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 597
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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