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

                                  
                                    The Cook of london whil þe Reue spak
                                  
                                    ffor ioye he þoughte he clawed him on þe bak
                                  
                                    ha ha quod he for cristes passioun
                                  
                                    This meller haþ a scharp conclusioun
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                                    vpon his argument of herbergage
                                  
                                    We[l] seide Salamon in his langage/
                                  
                                    Ne bryng nat euery man in to þin hous
                                  
                                    ffor herberwyng be night is perilous
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                                    Wel oughte a man auysed for to be
                                  
                                    Whom þat he broughte in to his priuite
                                  
                                    I praie to god so yeue me sorwe and care
                                  
                                    If euere sithen I highte hogge of of ware
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                                    herde I mellere bettre y-set a werke
                                  
                                    he hadde a Iape of malice in þe derke/
                                  
                                    And þerfore if ȝe vouche sauf to heere/
                                  
                                    But god forbede þat we stynte heere
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                                    A tale of me þat am a pouere man
                                  
                                    I wol yow telle as wel as euer I can
                                  
                                    A litel Iape þat fil in oure Citee
                                  
                                    Oure oost answerde and seide I graunte it þe
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                                    Now telle on Roger loke þat it be good
                                  
                                    ffor many a paste hast þou latyn blood
                                  
                                    And many a Iakke of Douer hast þou sold
                                  
                                    That haþ ben twyes hoot and twyes cold
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                                    Of many pilgrym hastow cristes curs
                                  
                                    ffor of þy persely ȝit þey fare þe wors
                                  
                                    þat þei haue eten wiþ þe stubbul goos
                                  
                                    ffor in þy schoppe is many a flye loos
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                                    Now tel on gentil Roger by þi name
                                  
                                    But yet I preye þe be not wroþ for game
                                  
                                    A man may say ful soth in game and play
                                  
                                    Thou seist ful soþ quod Roger by my fay [folio 61b] 
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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 125
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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