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

                                
                                     [6-text p 320] 
                                  
                                  To seye this word / and fouler is the dede
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                                  Whan man so drynketh / of the white & rede
                                
                                  That of his throte / he maketh his pryuee
                                
                                  Thurgh / thilke cursed superfluite
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                                  ¶ The Apostle wepyng seith ful pitously [// Ad Philipenses capitulo 3o.] 
                                
                                  Ther walken manye / of whiche yow toold haue I
                                
                                  I seye it now wepyng with pitous voys
                                
                                  Ther been enemys / of Cristes croys
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                                  Of whiche the ende is deth / wombe is hir god
                                
                                  O wombe / o bely / o stynkyng cod
                                
                                  ffulfilled of dong and of corrupcioun
                                
                                  At either ende of thee / foul is the soun
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                                  How greet labour / and cost is thee to fynde
                                
                                  Thise Cokes / how they stampe / & streyne / & grynde
                                
                                  And turnen substance / in-to accident
                                
                                  To fulfillen al / the likerous talent
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                                  Out of the harde bones / knokke they
                                
                                  The mary / for they caste nat awey
                                
                                  That may go thurgh the golet softe and soote [folio 198b] 
                                
                                  Of Spicerie / of lief / and bark/ and roote
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                                  Shal been his Sauce / ymaked by delit
                                
                                  To make hym yet a newer appetit
                                
                                  But certes / he that haunteth swiche delices [¶ qui autem in delicijs est viuens / mortuus est /] 
                                
                                  Is deed / whil þat he lyueth in tho vices
                                
                                  ¶ A lecherous thyng is wyn // and dronkenesse [¶ luxuriosa res / vinum] 
                                
                                  Is ful of stryuyng and of wrecchednesse [¶ et contumeliosa ebrietas] 
                                
                                  O dronke man / disfigured is thy face
                                
                                  Sour is thy breeth / foul artow to embrace
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                                  And thurgh thy dronke nose / semeth the soun
                                
                                  As thogh thou seydest ay / Sampsoun Sampsoun
                                
                                  And yet god woot Sampson drank neuere no wyn
                                
                                  Thou fallest as it were a stiked swyn
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                                  Thy tonge is lost and al thyn honest cure
                                
                                  ffor dronkenesse / is verray sepulture
                                
                                  Of mannes wit and his discrecion
                                
                                  In whom þat drynke / hath domynacion

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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 457
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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