The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  And to anothir knight comaundid he /
                                
                                  Go lede him to þe deth I charge þe /
                                
                                  And happed as þay wente by þe weye [folio 113a] 
                                
                                  Toward þe place þer he schulde deye
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                                  The knight com which. men wend hadde be deed
                                
                                  Than þoughten þay it were þe beste reed
                                
                                  To lede hem boþe to þe iuge agayn
                                
                                  Thay sayden lord þe knight haþ not slayn
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                                  his felaw lo. heer he stont hool on lyue
                                
                                  Ȝe schal be deed quod he so mote I þriue
                                
                                  That is to sayn boþe oon. tuo. and þre
                                
                                  And to þe firste knyȝt right þus spak he
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                                  I deme þe þou most algate be deed
                                
                                  Than þoughte þay it were þe beste rede [[Spurious]] 
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                                  To lede him forþ in to a fair mede [[Spurious]] 
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                                  And quod þe iuge also þou most lese þin heed
                                
                                  For þou art cause why þy felaw deyth
                                
                                  And to þe þridde felaw þus he seith
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                                  Thou hast nought doon þat I comaundid þe
                                
                                  And þus he let don sle hem alle þre
                                
                                  Irous Cambises was eek dronkelewe
                                
                                  And ay delited him to ben a schrewe
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                                  And so bifel a lord of his meigne
                                
                                  That loued vertues and eek/ moralite
                                
                                  Sayd on a day bitwix hem tuo right þus
                                
                                  A lord is lost if he be vicious
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                                  An Irous man is lik a frentik best [[Spurious]] 
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                                  In which þer is of wisdom noon arrest [[Spurious]] 
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                                  And dronkenes is eek a foul record
                                
                                  Of any man and namly of a lord
                                
                                  Ther is ful many eyȝe and many an eere
                                
                                  Awaytand on a lord and he not where
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                                  For goddes loue drynk more attemperelly
                                
                                  wyn makith man to lese wrecchedly
                                
                                  his mynde and eek. his lymes euerichoon
                                
                                  The reuers schaltow seen quod he anoon
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                                  And proue it by þin owne experience
                                
                                  That wyn ne doþ to folk non such offence
                                
                                  Ther is no wyn. byreueth me my wit
                                
                                  Of hond of foot ne of myn eyȝe sight

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 254
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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