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

                                
                                     [6-text p 585] 
                                  
                                  fful gylteles that durste I swere I-wis
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                                  O rakele hand to don so foule a-mys
                                
                                  O troubele wit O yre recheles [folio 397b] 
                                
                                  That on auysid smytist gilteles
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                                  ¶ O wantrust ful of fals suspecioun
                                
                                  Where was thyn wit & thyn discrecioun
                                
                                  O eueri man be war of rakilnesse
                                
                                  Ne trowe no thyng with-oute gret witnesse
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                                  Smyt nat to sore er than ȝe wetyn why
                                
                                  And beth auysed weel & sobirly
                                
                                  Er ȝe doon ony execucioun
                                
                                  Vp-on ȝoure yre for suspecioun
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                                  Allas a thousent folk han rakil yre
                                
                                  fully fordon & brough hem in the myre
                                
                                  Allas for sorw I wele myn seluyn sle
                                
                                  And to the crowe o false thef quod he
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                                  I wele the quite a-non thyn false tale
                                
                                  Thow sunge whilhom lich a Nyghtyngale
                                
                                  Now schalt thow false thef thyn song forgon
                                
                                  An ek thynne white federis euerichon
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                                  Ne neuere in al thyn lyf ne schalt tow speke
                                
                                  Thus schal men on a traytour been a-wreke
                                
                                  Thow & thynne ospryng / Schul been blake
                                
                                  Ne neuere swete noyse schul ȝe make
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                                  But euere crye a-ȝen tempest & reyn
                                
                                  In tokenynge that thour the myn wif is slayn
                                
                                  And to the Crowe he styrte & that a-non
                                
                                  And pullede hise white federis euerychon
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                                  And made hym blak & raft hym al his song
                                
                                  And ek his speche & out ate dore hym slong
                                
                                  Vnto the devil whiche I hym be-take
                                
                                  And for this cas been alle crowis blake
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                                  ¶ Lordyngis by this exsaumple I ȝow preye
                                
                                  Beth war & takyth kep what that I seye
                                
                                  .;Ne tellyth neuere no man In ȝoure lyf
                                
                                  How that a nothir man hath dyght his wyf

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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 576
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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