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

                                
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                                  He wolde han fled / but that the fox anon
                                
                                  Seyde gentil sire / allas wher wol ye gon
                                
                                  Be ye affrayed of me / that am youre freend
                                
                                  Now certes / I were worse than a feend
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                                  If I to yow / wolde harm / or vileynye
                                
                                  I am nat come / your conseil for tespye
                                
                                  But trewely / the cause of my comynge
                                
                                  Was oonly / for to herkne how that ye synge
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                                  ffor trewely / ye haue as myrie a steuene
                                
                                  As any Aungel / that is in heuene
                                
                                  Ther-with ye han in Musyk moore feelynge
                                
                                  Than hadde Boece / or any þat kan synge
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                                  My lord youre fader / god his soule blesse
                                
                                  And eek youre mooder/ of hire gentillesse
                                
                                  Han in myn hous ybeen / to my greet ese [folio 188a] 
                                
                                  And certes sire / ful fayn wolde I yow plese
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                                  ¶ But for men speke of syngyng I wol yow seye
                                
                                  So moote I brouke wel / myne eyen tweye
                                
                                  Saue yow / herde I neuere man yet synge
                                
                                  As dide youre fader / in the morwenynge
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                                  Certes / it was of herte / al that he song
                                
                                  And for to make / his voys / the moore strong
                                
                                  He wolde so peyne hym / that with bothe hise eyen
                                
                                  He moste wynke / so loude he wolde cryen
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                                  And stonden on his tiptoon / ther-with-al
                                
                                  And strecche forth his nekke / long and smal
                                
                                  And eek he was / of swich discrecion
                                
                                  That ther nas / no man in no Region
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                                  That hym / in song or wisedom myghte passe
                                
                                  I haue wel rad / in daun Burnel the Asse
                                
                                  Among hise vers / how that ther was a Cok
                                
                                  ffor that a preestes sone / yaf hym a knok
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                                  Vp-on his leg whil he was yong and nyce
                                
                                  He made hym / for to lese his benefice
                                
                                  But certeyn / ther nys no comparison
                                
                                  Bitwixe / the wisedom / and discrecion

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 519
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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