The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
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                                  How Cristes peple / he may to myschief bryng
                                
                                  God kepe vs from his fals dissimulyng
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                                  Nat wist this preest / with whom þat he delt
                                
                                  Ne of his harme commyng / he no thyng felt
                                
                                  O sely preest/ o sely Innocent/
                                
                                  With Couetise anoon / þou shalt be blent/
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                                  O graceles / full blynd is thy conseyt/
                                
                                  No thyng / ne art þou ware of the disceyt/
                                
                                  Which that this fox / yschapen hath to þe
                                
                                  His wily wrenches / þou ne maist nat flee
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                                  Wherfore to go / to the conclusion
                                
                                  That referreth to thy confusion
                                
                                  Vnhappy man / anone I woll me hye
                                
                                  To tell thyn vnwitte / and thy folye
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                                  and eke þe falsnesse of þat other wrecche
                                
                                  As ferforth / as that my connyng / woll strecche
                                
                                  This Chanon / was my lord ye wold wene
                                
                                  Sir hoost/ in feith / and by þe hevenes quene
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                                  It was another Chanon / and nat he
                                
                                  That can an hundred fold more subteltee
                                
                                  He þat hath betrayed folkes many tyme
                                
                                  Of his falsnesse it dulleth me to ryme
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                                  Ever whan that I speke of his falshede
                                
                                  ffor shame of hym my chekes / wexen rede
                                
                                  Algates they begynne for to glowe
                                
                                  ffor redness / haue I. noon / right wele I knowe
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                                  In my visage / for fumes diuerse
                                
                                  Of metals / which ye han herd me reherce
                                
                                  Consumed and wasted han my rednesse
                                
                                  Now take hede / of this Chanons cursednesse
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                                  Sir koth the Chanon / let your man goon
                                
                                  ffor qwyk-siluer / þat we it hade anoon
                                
                                  And let hym bryng ounces / ij. or .iij.
                                
                                  And whan he comth as fast shull ye see
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                                  A wonder thyng / which ye sawe neuere or this
                                
                                  Sir koth the preest/ it shall be don ywis

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 559
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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