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

                                
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                                  This story is also trewe I vndertake
                                
                                  As is þe book of launcelot þe lake
                                
                                  þat wommen heelde in ful gret reuerence
                                
                                  Now wol I torne aȝein to my sentence
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                                  A kolle fox ful of sleighte and iniquite
                                
                                  That in þe groue had woned ȝeeres þre
                                
                                  By heih ymaginacion aforn caste
                                
                                  þe same night þurghout þe hegges braste
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                                  In-to þe yerde þer Chaunteclere þe faire
                                
                                  Was wont and eek his wyfes to repayre
                                
                                  And in a bedde of worstes stille he lay
                                
                                  Til it was passed vndern of þe day
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                                  Wayting his tyme on chaunteclere to falle
                                
                                  As gladly doon þese homicydes alle [folio 253a] 
                                
                                  That in awayte ligge to murþre men
                                
                                  O false murdrour roukyng in þy den
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                                  O newe scariote and newe Genyloun
                                
                                  ffals dissimulour O greke Synon
                                
                                  That broughtest Troye outrely to sorwe
                                
                                  O Chaunteclere acorsed be þat morwe
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                                  þat þou in þe ȝerde fleyȝe fro þe beemes
                                
                                  Thou were ful wel y-warned by þin derems
                                
                                  That þilke day was perilous to þe
                                
                                  But þat at god afore wot moot needes be
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                                  After þe opynyon of certein clerkes
                                
                                  Witnesse on him þat any clerk/ is
                                
                                  That in scole gret altercacion
                                
                                  In þis matiere and gret disputeson
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                                  And haþ ben of an hundred þousand men
                                
                                  But I ne can nouȝt bulte it to þe bren
                                
                                  As can þe holy doctour augustyn
                                
                                  Or Boece or þe Bisschoppe Bradwardyn
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                                  Wheþer þat/ goddes wille afore wetyng
                                
                                  Streyneþ me needely for to don a þing
                                
                                  Needly clepe I simple necessite
                                
                                  Or elles if þe free choys be graunted me /

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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 581
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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