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

                                
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                                  And to anoþer knight comaunded he
                                
                                  Go lede him to þe deþ I charge þe
                                
                                  And happed as þey wente by þe weye
                                
                                  Toward þe place þer as he schulde deye
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                                  The knight cam which þey wend hadde be deed
                                
                                  Thenne þoughten þey it were þe beste reed
                                
                                  To lede hem boþe to þe Iuge aȝein
                                
                                  þey seyden lord þe knight ne haþ not sleyn
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                                  his felawe here he stant on lyue
                                
                                  ȝe schulle be deed quod he so mot I þriue
                                
                                  þis is to say boþe oon and tuo and þre
                                
                                  And to þe firste knight right þus spak he
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                                  I dampned þe þou most algate be deed
                                
                                  And þou also most needes lese þin heed
                                
                                  ffor þou art cause why þy felaw deyþ
                                
                                  And to þe þridde knight right þus he seiþ
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                                  Thou hast not don þat I comaunded þe [folio 126a] 
                                
                                  And þus he dede do slee hem alle þre
                                
                                  Irous kambises was eek drunkelewe
                                
                                  And ay delited him to ben a schrewe
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                                  And so bifelle a lord of his meigne
                                
                                  That loued vertuous moralite
                                
                                  Sayde on a day vnto himself right þus
                                
                                  A lord is lost if he be vicious
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                                  And drunkenesse is eek a foul record
                                
                                  Of any man and namly in a lord
                                
                                  Ther is ful many an ey and many an eere
                                
                                  Awaytyng on a lord and he not where
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                                  ffor goddes loue drynkeþ more attemperelly
                                
                                  Wyn makeþ a man to lese wrecchedly
                                
                                  his mynde and eek his lymes euerychon
                                
                                  The reuers schalt þou see quod he anoon
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                                  And proue it by þin owne experience
                                
                                  That wyn doþ to folk no such offence
                                
                                  Ther is no wyn byreueþ me my might
                                
                                  Of hande ne foot ne of myn eyȝen sight

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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 273
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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