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

                                
                                     [6-text p 585] 
                                  
                                  Ful giltles þat dorst [I] swere .I.-wys
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                                  O rachel hounde to done so foule amys
                                
                                  O trouble witte o yre recheles
                                
                                  þat vnavised smytest giltles
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                                  O wanne trust ful of fals suspeccion
                                
                                  Where was þi witte and þi discrecione
                                
                                  Of euery mair be war of rechelnesse
                                
                                  Ne trowe no þinge wiþ outen stronge wittenesse
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                                  Smyte nouhte to sone ar þat þou wyt why
                                
                                  Ande be auisede wele & soburlye
                                
                                  Or ȝe do any execucion
                                
                                  Vpon ȝoure ire for suspecciōn
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                                  Alas a þousand folke haue Rachel ire
                                
                                  Fully for-done or brouht hem in þe myre
                                
                                  Alas for sorwe .I. wil my self sle
                                
                                  And to þe crowe o fals þef seide he
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                                  .I. wil þe qwite anone þi fals tale
                                
                                  þow songe whilom like a nyht gale
                                
                                  Nowe schalt þou fals þef þi songe for-gone
                                
                                  Eke þine white feþers euerychon
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                                  Ne neuer in al þi lif schal þu speke
                                
                                  þus schal men on a traitur buen y-wreke
                                
                                  þou & þin hofspringe euere schal be blake
                                
                                  Ne neuere swete noise schal ȝe maake
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                                  Bot euere Crie a-ȝeine tempest & reyne
                                
                                  In tokeneynge þat þoruhe þe my wif is sleyne
                                
                                  And to þe crowe he sterte & þat anone
                                
                                  And pullede his white feþers euerychone
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                                  And maad him blake & raft him al his songe
                                
                                  And eke his speche & oute at þe dore him slonge
                                
                                  Vn-to þe deuel whiche .I. him be-take
                                
                                  And for þis cas bene al crowes blake [folio 229a] 
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                                  Lordeinges be þis ensample .I. ȝowe preye
                                
                                  Beþe ware & takeþ kepe what þat ȝe seye
                                
                                  Ne telleþ neuere no man in ȝoure lif
                                
                                  Howe þat anoþere man haþ swyved his wif

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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 599
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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