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

                                
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                                  And to a-noþer knyȝt comaundede he
                                
                                  Go lede hym to þe deth I charge þe
                                
                                  And happid as þey wente by þe weye
                                
                                  Toward þe place þere he schulde deye
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                                  The knyȝt cam which men wende he hadde be ded
                                
                                  Thanne thouȝte þey it was þe beste red
                                
                                  To leede hem boþe to þe Iuge a-geyn
                                
                                  They seyde lord þe knyght ne hath not slayn
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                                  His felawe here he stondyth hol a-loone
                                
                                  Ȝe schul ben ded a-noon so mote I gone
                                
                                  That is to seyne boþe on & too & thre
                                
                                  And to þe ferste knyȝt þus spak he
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                                  I dampnede þe þu muste algatis be ded
                                
                                  And þou also muste nedys lese þyn hed
                                
                                  ffor þou art cause whi thyn felawe deyeth
                                
                                  And to þe thredde knyȝt ryȝt þus he seyeth
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                                  Thow hast not don þat I comaundede þe
                                
                                  And þus he dede hem slen alle thre
                                
                                  Irous Cambises was ek dronkelewe
                                
                                  And ay delitede hym to ben a schrewe
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                                  And so be-fel a lord of his meyne
                                
                                  That louede verteuos moralite
                                
                                  Seyde on a day be-twixe hem ryȝt þus
                                
                                  A lord is lost ȝif he be vicious
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                                  And dronkenes is ek a foul record
                                
                                  In any man & namely in a lord
                                
                                  There is ful manye an ye & manye an ere
                                
                                  A-waytynge on a lord & he not where
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                                  ffor godys loue drynk more a-temperelly
                                
                                  Wyn makyth man to lesyn wrechedely
                                
                                  His mynde & hyse lymys euerychon
                                
                                  The reuers schal þou sen & þat a-non
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                                  And preve it by thyn owene experyence [folio 239a] 
                                
                                  That wyn ne doth to folk non swich offence
                                
                                  There is no wyn be-reuyth me myn myȝt
                                
                                  Of hond ne foot ne of myn eye syȝt

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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 227
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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