The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 393] 
                                  
                                  With-inne þyn hous ne be þou no lyoun
                                
                                  To þynne subiectis do non oppressioun
                                
                                  Ne make þynne aquentauncis not to fle
                                
                                  And Thomas ȝit eft sonys I charge þe
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                                  By-war from hire þat in þyn bosum slepith
                                
                                  By-war from þe serpent þat so slyly crepith
                                
                                  Vndyr þe gres & styngith subtyly
                                
                                  By-war myn sone & herke paciently
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                                  That twenty thousent men han lost here lyuys
                                
                                  ffor stryuyng with here lemanys & here wyuys
                                
                                  Now sithe ȝe han so holy meke a wyf
                                
                                  What nedyth ȝow Thomas to makyn stryf
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                                  There is I wis no serpent so crewel
                                
                                  Whan man trat on his tayl ne half so fel
                                
                                  As woman is whan sche hath cauȝt an yre
                                
                                  Veniaunce is þanne al þat þey desyre
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                                  Ire is a synne on of þe gretteste of synnys
                                
                                  Abomynable vnto þe god of heuene
                                
                                  And to hym self it is distruxcioun
                                
                                  This euery lewede veker or parsoun
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                                  Kan seen how yre engenderyth homysyde
                                
                                  Ire is in soth executour of pryde
                                
                                  I coude of Ire sey so meche sorwe
                                
                                  Myn tale schulde laste tyl to morwe
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                                  And þerfore preye I god boþe day & nyȝt
                                
                                  An yrous man god sende hym lityl myȝt
                                
                                  It is gret harm & ek greet pete
                                
                                  To sette an yrous man in heigh degre
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                                  ¶ Whylom þere was an yrous potestat [Of an Irous potestat/] 
                                
                                  As seyth Senek þat durynge his estat
                                
                                  Vp-on a day out rydyn knyȝtis too [folio 238b] 
                                
                                  And as fortune wolde þat it were so
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                                  That on of hem cam hom þat oþer nouȝt
                                
                                  A-non þe knyȝt by-fore þe Iuge is brouȝt
                                
                                  That seyde þus þou hast þyn felawe slayn
                                
                                  ffor which I deme þe to þe deth sertayn

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 226
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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