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

                                
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                                  He can no counseil kepe it is no drede
                                
                                  Ne keep ȝow from þe white and from þe rede
                                
                                  Namely fro þe white wyn of leepe
                                
                                  That is to selle in Fleetstreet or in Chepe
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                                  This wyn of Spayne crepith subtily [folio 189a] 
                                
                                  In oþer wynes growyng faste by
                                
                                  Of which þer riseth such fumosite /
                                
                                  That whan a man hath dronke draughtes þre /
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                                  And weneth þat he be at hom in Chepe
                                
                                  He is in Spayne right.at þe toun of lepe /
                                
                                  Nought at þe Rochel ne at Burdeaux toun
                                
                                  And þanne wol þai say Sampsoun Sampsoun.
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                                  But herken lordyngs o word I ȝou pray /
                                
                                  That alle þe souerayn actes dar I say
                                
                                  Of victories in þe olde testament
                                
                                  That þorugh þe verray god omnipotent
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                                  were doon in abstinence and in prayere /
                                
                                  Lokith þe bible and þer ȝe may it hiere
                                
                                  Loke atthila þe grete conquerour
                                
                                  Deyd in his sleep with schame and dishonour
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                                  Bleedyng ay at his nose in dronkenesse /
                                
                                  A captayn schuld ay lyue in sobrenesse
                                
                                  And ouer al this aryse ȝow right wel
                                
                                  what was comaunded vnto lamuel
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                                  Nought samuel but lamuel say I
                                
                                  Redith þe bible and fyndeþ expresly
                                
                                  Of wyn ȝeuyng / to hem þat han Iustice
                                
                                  No more of þis for it may wel suffice
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                                  And now I haue I-spoke of glotonye /
                                
                                  Now wil I ȝow defende hasardrye
                                
                                  ¶ Hasard is verray moder of lesynges
                                
                                  And of deceipt of cursed forsweringes
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                                  Blaspheme of crist manslaught and wast also /;
                                
                                  Of catel and of tyme. forther mo.
                                
                                  It is reproef and contrair to honour
                                
                                  For to be halde a comun hasardour

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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 433
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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