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

                                
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                                  To do þat same þing or to do it nouȝt
                                
                                  þough god forwot it er it was y-wrought
                                
                                  Or of his wetyng streigneþ neuer a del
                                
                                  But by necessite condicionel
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                                  I wol not haue to doone of such matiere
                                
                                  My tale is of a cokk as ȝe schuln after heere
                                
                                  That took his counseil of his wyf wiþ sorwe
                                
                                  To walke in-to þe ȝerd vppon þe morwe
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                                  That he had mette þe dreem as I ȝou tolde
                                
                                  Wommens counseiles ben ful ofte colde
                                
                                  Wommans counseil brought vs ferst to wo
                                
                                  And made adam fro paradys to go
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                                  þer as he was ful mery and wel at ese /
                                
                                  But for I not whom it might displese [folio 253b] 
                                
                                  If I councel of wommen wolde blame
                                
                                  Passe ouer I seyde it in my game
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                                  Rede auctours wher þey trete of such matiere
                                
                                  And what þay sein of wommen ȝe may heere
                                
                                  These ben þe cokkes wordes and nought myne
                                
                                  I can non harme of no womman devyne
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                                  ffayre in þe sande to baþe hire merily
                                
                                  liþ pertelote and alle hire sustres by
                                
                                  Aȝein þe sonne and Chaunteclere so fre
                                
                                  Sange meriere þan þe mere-mayde in þe see
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                                  ffor Physyalogus saiþ witterly
                                
                                  How þat þey sungen wel and merily
                                
                                  And so bifelle as he cast his ye
                                
                                  amonges þe wortes vpon a butterflye
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                                  He was war of þis ffox þat lay ful lowe
                                
                                  ¶ No þing ne luste him þanne for to crowe
                                
                                  But cryed anon kok kok and vp he sterte
                                
                                  As man þat was affrayed in his herte
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                                  ffor naturelly a beste desireþ to fle
                                
                                  ffro his contrarye if he may it se
                                
                                  þey he neuer hadde seye it erst wiþ his ye
                                
                                  This Chaunteclere when he gan him espye

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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 582
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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