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

                                
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                                  Yet hath this brid / by twenty thousand foold
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                                  Leuere in a fforest / that is rude and coold
                                
                                  Goon ete wormes / and swich wrecchednesse [folio 208a] 
                                
                                  ffor euere this brid / wol doon his bisynesse
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                                  To escape out of his Cage / if he may
                                
                                  His libertee / this brid desireth ay
                                
                                  ¶ Lat take a Cat and fostre hym wel with Milk [¶ Exemplum. de Murelego] 
                                
                                  And tendre flessh / and make his couche of silk
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                                  And lat hym seen / a Mous go by the wal
                                
                                  Anon he weyueth / Milk / and flessh and al
                                
                                  And euery deyntee / that is in that hous
                                
                                  Swich appetit he hath / to ete a Mous
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                                  Lo / heere hath lust his dominacion
                                
                                  And Appetit fleemeth discrecion
                                
                                  ¶ A she wolf / hath also / a vileyns kynde [¶ Exemplum. de lupo] 
                                
                                  The lewedeste wolf / þat she may fynde
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                                  Or leest of reputacion / that wol she take
                                
                                  In tyme / whan hir lust to han a make
                                
                                  ¶ Alle thise ensamples / speke I by thise men
                                
                                  That been vntrewe / and no thyng by wommen
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                                  ffor men han euere / a likerous appetit
                                
                                  On lower thyng to parfourne hire delit
                                
                                  Than on hire wyues / be they neuer so faire
                                
                                  Ne neuer so trewe / ne so debonaire
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                                  fflessh is so newefangel with meschaunce
                                
                                  That we ne konne / in no thyng han plesaunce
                                
                                  That sowneth in-to vertu / any while
                                
                                  ¶ This Phebus / which þat thoghte vpon no gile
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                                  Deceyued was / for al his Iolitee
                                
                                  ffor vnder hym / another hadde shee
                                
                                  A man / of litel reputacion
                                
                                  Nat worth to Phebus / in comparison
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                                  The moore harm is / it happeth ofte so
                                
                                  Of which ther cometh / muchel harm and wo
                                
                                  ¶ And so bifel / whan Phebus was absent
                                
                                  His wyf anon / hath for hir lemman sent

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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 578
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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