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

                                
                                     [6-text p 582] 
                                  
                                  ȝit hath this bryd be twenty thousend fold
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                                  Leuere in a forest that is· rude & cold
                                
                                  Gon ete wermys & sweche wrechedenesse
                                
                                  ffor euere this bryd wele doon his busynesse
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                                  To escapyn out of his cage ȝif he may
                                
                                  His lyberte this brid desiryth ay
                                
                                  // Lat take a Cat & fostere hym weel with mylk
                                
                                  And tendere flesch & make his couche of silk
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                                  And lat hym seen a mous goon by the wal
                                
                                  A-non he weyvith Milk & flesch & al
                                
                                  And eueri deynte that is in that hous
                                
                                  Swich apetit hath he / to ete a mous
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                                  Loo heere hat lust his dominacioun
                                
                                  And apetit flemyth discrecioun
                                
                                  // A sche wolf hath also a dyuers kynde
                                
                                  The lewedeste wolf that sche may fynde
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                                  Or lest of reputacioun that wele sche take
                                
                                  In tyme whanne hire lust to han a make
                                
                                  // Alle these ensaumplis speke I by these men
                                
                                  That been ontrewe & no thyng by wemen
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                                  ffor men han euere a lykerous apetit
                                
                                  On lowere thyng to parfornyn here delyt [[delyt corrected]] 
                                
                                  Than on here wyuys ben they neuere so fayre
                                
                                  Ne neuere so trewe ne neuere so debonayre
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                                  fflesch is so newefangil with myschaunce
                                
                                  That we ne cunne in nothyng han plesaunce
                                
                                  That sounyth in-to wertew ony whyle
                                
                                  This phebus which that thoughte on no gyle
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                                  Disceyuede was for al his Iolyte
                                
                                  ffor vndyr hym a-nothir hadde sche
                                
                                  A man of litil reputacioun
                                
                                  Not worth to phebus in comparisoun
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                                  The more harm is it ofte happith so [folio 396b] 
                                
                                  Of whiche there comyth meche harm & wo
                                
                                  And so be-fel that phebus was absent
                                
                                  His wif a-non hath forth his leman sent

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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 573
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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