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 ...

                                
                                     [6-text p 582] 
                                  
                                  Yitte hade this bird by .xx. thousand fold
                                
                                  leuer in a fforest/ þat is rude and cold
                                
                                  Goo ete wormes / and soch wrecchednesse
                                
                                  ffor euere þis bird woll don his besynesse
                                  Line 172 
                                
                                  To escape out of his cage yf þat he may
                                
                                  His libertee / this bird desireth ay
                                
                                  Let take a Cat / and fostre hym well with mylk/
                                
                                  And tendre flessh / and make his couche of sylk/
                                  Line 176 
                                
                                  And let hym seen a mous / go by the wall / [Eg. 2726 folio 238b] 
                                
                                  Anoon he weyueth mylk/ and flessh and all
                                
                                  And euery deyntee / that is in that hous
                                
                                  Soch apetyte hath he / to ete the mous
                                  Line 180 
                                
                                  lo here hath lust/ his dominacion
                                
                                  And appetite / flemeth discrecion
                                
                                  A she wolf hath also / a velens kynd
                                
                                  The lewdest wolf/ þat she may fynd
                                  Line 184 
                                
                                  Or leest of reputacion / þat woll she take
                                
                                  In tyme whan þat hir list to han a make
                                
                                  All thise ensaumples / speke I. by thise men
                                
                                  That ben vntrewe / but no thyng by wommen
                                  Line 188 
                                
                                  ffor men han euere / a likerous appetite
                                
                                  On lower thyng / to perfourme her delite
                                
                                  Than on her wyfes / ben þey neuere so feire
                                
                                  Ne neuere so true / ne so deboneire
                                  Line 192 
                                
                                  fflessh is so newe fangell/ with meschaunce
                                
                                  That we ne con / in no thyng haue plesaunce
                                
                                  That sowneth in-to vertue ony while
                                
                                  This Phebus / which þat þough vp-on no gyle
                                  Line 196 
                                
                                  Disceyued was / for all his iolytee
                                
                                  ffor vnder hym / another hade she
                                
                                  A man of litle reputacion
                                
                                  Nat worth to Phebus in comparison
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                                  The more harme is / it happeth often so
                                
                                  Of which there comth / mochell harme and woo
                                
                                  And so byfell / whan Phebus was absent/
                                
                                  His wyf anoon / hath for hir lemman sent/

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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 577
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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