The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 320] 
                                  
                                  To seie þis worde and fouler is þe dede
                                
                                  When men so drenken of þe white and of þe rede
                                
                                  Þat of his þrote he maade his priuetee
                                
                                  Þoruhe þilke cursed superfluyte
                                  Line 528 
                                
                                  þe Appostell wepeinge seiþe ful pitously
                                
                                  þere walken mony of whiche ȝoue tolde haue .I.
                                
                                  .I. saye it nowe wepeinge wiþ pitous voice
                                
                                  There bien enmyes of cristes croice
                                  Line 532 
                                
                                  Of whiche þe ende is deþe þe wombe is hire god
                                
                                  O wombe o holy o stinkinge cod
                                
                                  Fulfilled of donge and of corrupcione
                                
                                  Att eyþe[r] ende of þe foule is þe soune
                                  Line 536 
                                
                                  Howe grete cost and laboure is to finde
                                
                                  þes cokes howe þaie stame and striue and grinde
                                
                                  And turne substance in-to accident
                                
                                  To fulfil al þi lykorous talent
                                  Line 540 
                                
                                  Oute of þe harde bones knoke þeie
                                
                                  þe mery for þei cast nouht aweie
                                
                                  þat maie go þoruh þe golet soft and swote
                                
                                  Of spicere of leues barke and rote
                                  Line 544 
                                
                                  Schal be his sauce be maade be delite
                                
                                  To maak him ȝitt a newere appetite
                                
                                  Bot certes he þat haunteþ suche delices
                                
                                  Is dede whiles þat he leueþ in þe vices
                                  Line 548 
                                
                                  A lycherous þinge is wyne and dronkennesse
                                
                                  Is ful of stryueynge and of wrechednesse
                                
                                  O dronken man disfigured is þi face.
                                
                                  Foul is þi breþ . foule ert þou to embrace
                                  Line 552 
                                
                                  And þoruhe þi drongen nose semeþe þi soune [folio 176a] 
                                
                                  As þouhe þou ay said Samson samsoune
                                
                                  And ȝit goode wotte Samson dranke neuer wyne
                                
                                  þou falest as a dronken swyne
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                                  þi tonge is loste and al þine honest cures
                                
                                  For dronkenes is verreie sepultures
                                
                                  Of mannes witte and his discrecion
                                
                                  In whome þat drinke haþ dominacion

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 443
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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