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

                                
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                                  To do that same thyng or do it not
                                
                                  Thow god fore-wot it er that I was wrought
                                
                                  Or ȝif his wetynge streynyth neuere a deel
                                
                                  But by necescite condiciounnel
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                                  I wele not han to done of swich mateere
                                
                                  Myn tale is of a cok as ȝe may here
                                
                                  That tok his conseyl of his wif with sorwe
                                
                                  To walkyn in the ȝerd vp-on that morwe
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                                  That he hadde met the drem that I ȝow tolde
                                
                                  Womenys conseylis been ful oftyn colde
                                
                                  Womenys conseylis broughte vs ferst to woo
                                
                                  And made Adam from paradys to go
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                                  Theere as he was ful merye & weel at ese
                                
                                  But for I not to whom I myghte displese
                                
                                  ȝif I conseyl of women wolde blame
                                
                                  Passe ouyr for I seyde it in myn game
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                                  Reede autouris wheere they trete of sweche matiere
                                
                                  And what they sey / of women / ȝe may here
                                
                                  These been the cokkis wordis & nat myne
                                
                                  I can noon harm on no woman deuynne
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                                  ffayre in the sond to bathe hire meryely
                                
                                  Lyth Pertelote & alle hire susteryn by
                                
                                  A-geyn the sunne & Chauntecleer so free
                                
                                  Song meryere than the mermeydyn in the se
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                                  ffor phisiologus seyth sekyrly
                                
                                  How that they syngyn weel & meryely
                                
                                  And so be-fel that as he caste his yen
                                
                                  A-mong the wortis on a botyrflye
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                                  He was war of this fox that lay ful lowe
                                
                                  No thyng ne lyste hym thanne for to crowe
                                
                                  But criede a-noon kok kok & vp he styrte [folio 370b] 
                                
                                  As man that was afrayed in his herte
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                                  ffor naturelly / a beste desirith fle
                                
                                  ffrom his contrarye / ȝif he myghte it se
                                
                                  Thow he neuere erst hadde sey it with his Iye
                                
                                  ¶ This chauntecleer whan he gan hym espye

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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 513
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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