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

                                
                                     [6-text p 584] 
                                  
                                  Beheld here werk & seyde neuere a word [folio 397a] 
                                
                                  And whan that hom was come Phebus the lord
                                
                                  This Crowe song Cokhow cokhow cokhow [[w first we]] 
                                
                                  // What brid quod Phebus what song syngist thow
                                  Line 244 
                                
                                  Ne were thow wone so meryely to synge
                                
                                  That to myn herte it was a reioysynge
                                
                                  To here thyn voys allas what Ioye is this
                                
                                  By god quod he I synge nat a-mys
                                  Line 248 
                                
                                  Phebus quod he for al thyn worthynes
                                
                                  ffor al thyn beute & thyn gentiles
                                
                                  ffor al thyn song & thyn menstralsye
                                
                                  ffor al thyn waytyng blered is thyn eye
                                  Line 252 
                                
                                  With on of lytyl reputacioun
                                
                                  Nogh[t] worth to the in computacioun
                                
                                  The mountenaunce of a gnatte so mot I thryue
                                
                                  ffor on thyn bed thyn wif I saw hym swyue
                                  Line 256 
                                
                                  What wele ȝe more the crowe a-non hym tollde
                                
                                  By sadde tokenys & bi wordis bolde
                                
                                  How that his wif hadde doon hire lecherye
                                
                                  Hym to gret schame & to greet vilenye
                                  Line 260 
                                
                                  And tolde hym oftyn he saw it with hise yen
                                
                                  // This Phebus gan a-woyward for to wryen
                                
                                  And thoute his sorweful herte brast a-to
                                
                                  His bowe he bente & sette therin a flo
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                                  And in his yre his wif thanne hath he slayn
                                
                                  This is theffect there is no more to seyn
                                
                                  ffor sorwe of which he brak his menstrelcie
                                
                                  Bothe harpe & lute geterne & sauterye
                                  Line 268 
                                
                                  And ek he brak hise arwis & his bowe
                                
                                  And aftyr that thus spak he to the crowe
                                
                                  // Traytour quod he with tunge of Scorpioun
                                
                                  Thow hast me brought to myn confusioun
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                                  Allas that I was [[was corrected]]  wrought why nere I ded
                                
                                  O deere wyf o gemme of lustiheed
                                
                                  That were to me so sad / & ek so trewe
                                
                                  Now lyst thow deed / with face pale of hewe

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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 575
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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