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

                                
                                     [6-text p 320] 
                                  
                                  To say þis word and fouler is þe dede [¶ Esca ve tibi & venter escis deus [?] aurtem & hunc in illam destre.] 
                                
                                  When men so drynkeþ of þe white and þe rede /
                                
                                  þat of his þrote he makeþ his pryue
                                
                                  þurgh þilke cursed superfluite
                                  Line 528 
                                
                                  The apostel wepyng saiþ ful pitously
                                
                                  Ther walken many of which ȝou told haue I
                                
                                  I say it now wepyng wiþ pitous voys
                                
                                  Ther ben enemys of cristes croys
                                  Line 532 
                                
                                  Of which þe ende is deþ þe wombe is here god
                                
                                  O wombe o holy o stynkynge kod
                                
                                  ffulfilde of dunge and of corupcion
                                
                                  At eyþer ende of þe foule is þe soun
                                  Line 536 
                                
                                  How gret cost and labour is to fynde
                                
                                  þise cookes how þey scampe and streyne and grynde /
                                
                                  And turnen substaunce in-to accident
                                
                                  To fulfille al þy likerous talent
                                  Line 540 
                                
                                  Out of þe harde bones knokken þay
                                
                                  þe mary for þay caste nought away
                                
                                  þat may go þurgh þe golet softe and swoote
                                
                                  Of spicerie of leues bark and roote
                                  Line 544 
                                
                                  Schal ben his sause y-maad by delyte
                                
                                  To make him ȝit a newer appetite
                                
                                  But certes he þat haunteþ suche delices
                                
                                  Is deed whiles þat he lyueþ in þe vices
                                  Line 548 
                                
                                  A leccherous þing is wyn and drunkenes /
                                
                                  Is ful of stryuyng and of wrecchednes [folio 198b] 
                                
                                  O drunken man disfigured is þi face
                                
                                  ffoul is þi breþ foul art þou to embrace
                                  Line 552 
                                
                                  And þurgh þin drunken nose semeþ þi soun
                                
                                  As þough þou seydest ay Sampson Sampson
                                
                                  And ȝit god woot Sampson drank neuer no wyn
                                
                                  Thow fallest as it were a stiked swyn
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                                  Thyn tunge is lost and alle þin honeste cures
                                
                                  ffor drunkenes is verray sepultures
                                
                                  Of mannes wit and his discrecion
                                
                                  In whom þat drynke haþ dominacion

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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 442
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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