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

                                
                                     [6-text p 583] 
                                  
                                  Hire leman Certis this is a knauych speche
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                                  ffor [[r first ȝ]] -ȝeuyth it me & that I ȝow be-seche
                                
                                  The wyse plato seyth as ȝe may reede
                                
                                  The word mote nede a-corde with the dede
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                                  ȝif men schal telle propirly a thyng
                                
                                  The word mot Cosyn be to the werkyng
                                
                                  I am a boystoūs man ryght thus seye I
                                
                                  Theere is no differens trewely
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                                  Be-twixe a wyf that is of high degre
                                
                                  Ȝif of hire body disonest sche be
                                
                                  [And a pouer/ wenche othir/ than this/.
                                
                                  If/ it so be thei wirke bothe a mys/. [Harl. 1758 folio 202b] ]
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                                  But that the gentile in hire stat a-boue
                                
                                  Sche schal be clepid his lady as in loue
                                
                                  And for that othir is a pore woman
                                
                                  Sche schal be clepid his wenche or his lemman
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                                  And god it wot myn owene deere brothir
                                
                                  Men leyn that on as as lowe / as lyth that othir
                                
                                  // Righ so by-twixe a titeleles tyraunt
                                
                                  And an outlawe or a thef  [[er corrected]] erraunt
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                                  The same I seye there is no difference
                                
                                  To alysaundere was told this sentence
                                
                                  That for the tyraunt is of grettere myght
                                
                                  By force of meyne for to slen doun ryght
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                                  And brennyn hous & hom & make al pleyn
                                
                                  Lo therfore is he clepid a capitayn
                                
                                  // And for the outlawe hat but smal meyne
                                
                                  And may not doon so gret an harm as he
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                                  Ne brynge a cuntre to so greet myschif
                                
                                  Men clepe hym an outlawe or a thef
                                
                                  But for I am a man not textuel
                                
                                  I wele not telle of textys neuere a del ·
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                                  I wele go to myn tale as I be-gan
                                
                                  Whan Phebus wif hath sent for hire leman
                                
                                  Anon they wroughtyn al here lust volage
                                
                                  The white Crowe that heng ay in the cage

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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 574
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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