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

                                
                                     [6-text p 297] 
                                  
                                  Of ȝoure fadyr & of his subtiletee
                                
                                  Now syngith sere for seynte charite
                                
                                  Lat se cunne ȝe ȝoure fadyr countyrfete
                                
                                  This chauntecleer hise wyngis gan to beete
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                                  As man that coude his tresoun nat aspye
                                
                                  So was he rauyschid with his flaterye
                                
                                  ¶ Allas ȝe lordis manye a flaterour
                                
                                  Is in ȝoure court & manye a losengeour
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                                  That plesen ȝow weel more be myn fayth
                                
                                  Than he that sothfastmesse vn to ȝow sayth
                                
                                  Redyth ecclesiaste of flaterye
                                
                                  Beth war ȝe lordis of hire trecherye
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                                  This Chauntecleer stood hye vp-on hise tois
                                
                                  Strechynge his neke & held his eyen clos
                                
                                  And gan to crowe loude for the nonys
                                
                                  And daun Rusell the fox styrte vp at at anys
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                                  And by the garget hente Chauntecleer
                                
                                  And on his bak to the wode hym beer
                                
                                  ffor ȝit theere ne was no man that hym sewid
                                
                                  O destene that mayst nat been eschewid
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                                  Allas that Chauntecleer fley from the bemys
                                
                                  Allas his wyf ne roughte nat of dremys
                                
                                  And on a fryday fil al this myschaunce
                                
                                  O venus that art goddesse of plesaunce
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                                  Syn that thyn seruaunt was this chau[n]tecleer
                                
                                  And in thyn seruyse dede al his power
                                
                                  Moore for delyt than world to multeplye
                                
                                  Why woldist tow suffere hym on thyn day to deye
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                                  O ganfryd deere maystyr souereyn
                                
                                  That whan thyn worthy kyng Richard was slayn
                                
                                  With schot compleynedist his deth so soore
                                
                                  Whi ne hadde I-nough thyn centence & thyn loore
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                                  The fryday for to chide as dedyn ȝe
                                
                                  ffor on a fryday sothly slayn was he
                                
                                  Thanne wolde I schewyn how that I coude pleyne [folio 371b] 
                                
                                  ffor Chauntecleeres dreede & for his peyne

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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 515
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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