The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                  
                                    Torne ouer þe leef and chees anoþer tale
                                  
                                    ffor ȝe schulle fynde ynowe grete and smale
                                  
                                    Of storial þing þat toucheþ gentilesse
                                  
                                    And eek moralite and holynesse
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                                    Blameþ not me if þat ȝe cheese amys
                                  
                                    The meller is a cherl ȝe knowe wel þis
                                  
                                    So was þe Reeue eek and oþer mo
                                  
                                    And harlotrie þey tolden boþe tuo
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                                    Auiseþ ȝou and putteþ me out of blame
                                  
                                    And eek men schal not make ernest of game [[No gap in the MS.]]

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 91
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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