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

                                
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                                  Biheld hir werk/ and seyde neuer a word
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                                  And whan that hoom was come / Phebus the lord
                                
                                  This Crowe sang Cokkow / Cokkow Cokkow
                                
                                  ¶ What bryd quod Phebus / what song syngestow
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                                  [ [Rats.]  [folio 110b] N]e were thow wont so myrily to synge
                                
                                  That to myn herte / it was a reioysynge
                                
                                  To here thy voys / allas what song is this
                                
                                  ¶ By god quod he / I synge nat amys
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                                  Phebus quod he / for al thy worthynesse
                                
                                  ffor al thy beautee / and thy gentillesse
                                
                                  ffor al thy song and al thy Mynstralcye
                                
                                  ffor al thy waityng blered is thyn eye
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                                  With oon / of litel reputacion
                                
                                  Nat worth to thee / in comparison
                                
                                  The montance of a gnat so mote I thryue
                                
                                  ffor in thy bed / thy wif I sey hym &cetera
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                                  What wol ye moore / the Crowe anon hym tolde
                                
                                  By sadde toknes / and by wordes bolde
                                
                                  How þat his wyf / hadde doon hire lecherye
                                
                                  Hym to gret shame / and to gret vileynye
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                                  And tolde hym / ofte he say it with hise eyen
                                
                                  ¶ This Phebus / gan aweyward for to wryen
                                
                                  And thoughte / his sorweful herte brast atwo
                                
                                  His bowe he bente / and sette ther-Inne a flo
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                                  And in his Ire / his wyf thanne hath he slayn
                                
                                  This is theffect/ ther nys namoore to sayn
                                
                                  ffor sorwe of which / he brak his Mynstralcye
                                
                                  Bothe harpe / and Lute / and Gyterne / and Sawtrye
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                                  And eek he brak/ his arwes / and his bowe
                                
                                  And after that/ thus spak he to the Crowe
                                
                                  ¶ Traytour quod he / with tonge of Scorpion
                                
                                  Thow hast me broght to my confusion
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                                  Allas þat I was wroght why nere I ded
                                
                                  O deere wyf/ O gemme of lustihed
                                
                                  That were to me / so sad / and eek so trewe
                                
                                  Now lystow ded / with face pale of hewe

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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 253
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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