[6-text p 563]
How Cristes peple / he may to meschief / brynge
God kepe vs / from his false dissymulynge
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¶ Noght wiste this preest with whom þat he delt
N[e] of his harm comynge / he no thyng felte
O sely preest / o sely Innocent
With coueitise / anon thou shalt be blent
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O gracelees / ful blynd is thy conceite
No thyng/ ne artow war/ of the deceite
Which that this fox / yshapen hath for thee
Hise wily wrenches / thou ne mayst nat flee
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Wherfore to go / to the conclusion
That refereth / to thy confusion
Vnhappy man / anon I wol me hye [folio 202a]
To tellen thyn vnwit / and his folye
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And eek the falsnesse / of that oother wrecche
As ferforth / as my konnyng may strecche
This Chanon was my lord / ye wolden weene
Sire hoost in feith / and by the heuenes queene
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It was another Chanon / and nat hee
That kan an hundred foold moore subtiltee
He hath bitrayed folkes many tyme
Of his falshede / it dulleth me to ryme
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Euere whan þat I speke / of his falshede
ffor shame of hym / my chekes wexen rede
Algates / they bigynnen for to glowe
ffor reednesse haue I noon / right wel I knowe
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In my visage / for fumes diuerse
Of metals / whiche ye han herd me reherce
Consumed / and wasted han my reednesse
Now taak heede / of this Chanons cursednesse
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¶ Sire quod he to the preest lat youre man gon
ffor quyk siluer / that we hadde it anon
And lat hym / bryngen Ounces two or three
And whan he comth / as faste shal ye see
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A wonder thyng which ye saugh neuere er this
¶ Sire quod the preest it shal be doon ywis
