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

                                
                                     [6-text p 320] 
                                  
                                  To seye this word / & foulere is the dede
                                
                                  Whan man so drynkyth / of the white & reede
                                
                                  That of his throte / he makyth his priue
                                
                                  Thurgh thilke cursede / superfluite
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                                  The apostele wepynge / seyth ful pytously
                                
                                  T[h]ere walkyn manye / of whiche ȝow told haue I
                                
                                  I seye it now / wepynge with pitous woys
                                
                                  There been enemyis / of crystis croys
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                                  Of whiche the ende is deth / wombe is here god
                                
                                  O wombe / O bely / O stynkynge Cod
                                
                                  ffulfyld of dunge & of corrupcioun
                                
                                  At eythyr ende of the foul is the soun
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                                  How greet labour & cost is the to fynde
                                
                                  These cookis [[is corr.]]  how they stampe & streyne & grynde
                                
                                  And turnyn substauns in-to accident
                                
                                  To fulfille al the lykerous talent
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                                  Out of the harde bonys knokke they
                                
                                  The mary for thei caste nat a-wey
                                
                                  That may goon thurgh the golet softe & soote
                                
                                  Of spicerye / of lef / of bark / of roote
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                                  Schal been his saus / makyd bi delyt
                                
                                  To make hym ȝit / a newere apetit
                                
                                  But certis he that / hauntyth swyche delicis
                                
                                  Is ded whil that he / lyuyth in swiche vicis
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                                  A lecherous thyng / is wyn and [[and later]]  dronkenesse
                                
                                  Is ful of stryuyng & of wrechedenesse
                                
                                  O dronke man / disfigured is thyn face
                                
                                  Sour is thyn breth / foul art þou to enbrace
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                                  And thour thyn dronke nose / semyth the soun
                                
                                  As thow þou seydyst euere / sampsoun Sampsoun
                                
                                  And ȝit god wot/ Sampsoun drank neuere no wyn
                                
                                  Thow fallist / as it weere a stekyd swyn
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                                  Thyn tunge is lost & al thyn honeste cure [folio 307b] 
                                
                                  ffor drunkenesse is verray sepulture
                                
                                  Oof mannys wit & his discrecioun
                                
                                  In whom that drynk hath dominacioun

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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 373
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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