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

                                
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                                  Hir lemman / certes this a knauyssh speche [folio 110a] 
                                
                                  fforyeueth it me / and that I yow biseche
                                
                                  The wise Plato seith / as ye may rede
                                
                                  The word moot nede / acorde with the dede
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                                  If men shal telle / proprely a thyng
                                
                                  The word / moot cosyn be to the werkyng
                                
                                  I am a boystous man / right thus seye I
                                
                                  Ther nys no difference / trewely
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                                  Bitwix a wyf/ þat is of heigh degree
                                
                                  If of hire body / deshoneste she be
                                
                                  And a poore wenche / oother than this
                                
                                  If it so be / they werke bothe amys
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                                  But þat the gentile / in estat aboue
                                
                                  She shal be clepid his lady / as in loue
                                
                                  And for that oother / is a poore womman
                                
                                  She shal be clepid / his wenche / or his lemman
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                                  And god it woot/ myn owene deere brother
                                
                                  Men leyn þat oon / as lowe as lyth that oother
                                
                                  ¶ Right so / bitwix a titlelees [sine titulo]  tirant
                                
                                  And an Outlawe / or a theef errant
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                                  The same I seye / ther is no difference
                                
                                  To Alisandre / was told this sentence
                                
                                  That for the tirant / is of gretter myght
                                
                                  By force of meyne / for to sleen doun right
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                                  And brennen hous and hoom / and make al playn
                                
                                  Lo / ther fore / is he clepid a Capitayn
                                
                                  And for the Outlawe / hath but smal meynee
                                
                                  And may nat doon / so gret an harm as he
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                                  Ne brynge a contree / to so gret meschief
                                
                                  Men clepen hym / an Outlawe or a theef/
                                
                                  But for I am a man / noght textuel
                                
                                  I wol noght telle of textes / neuer a del
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                                  I wol go to my tale / as I bigan
                                
                                  ¶ Whan Phebus wyf/ hadde sent for hire lemman
                                
                                  Anon they wroghte / al hire lust volage
                                
                                  The white Crowe / þat heng ay in the Cage

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 252
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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