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

                                
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                                  Of ȝoure fader and of his subtilte
                                
                                  Now syngeþ sire for seinte Charite
                                
                                  Let see conne ȝe ȝoure fader countrefete
                                
                                  þis Chaunteclere his wynges gan to bete
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                                  As man þat couþe his treson not aspye
                                
                                  So was he rauysscht wiþ his flaterye [¶ Nota bene] 
                                
                                  ¶ Allas ȝe lordes many a fals flatour
                                
                                  Is in ȝoure Court and many a losengour
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                                  þat pleasen ȝou more by my feiþ
                                
                                  Then he þat soþfastnesse vnto ȝou seiþ
                                
                                  Redeþ ecclesiastre of flaterie
                                
                                  Beþ war ȝe lordes of here treccherie
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                                  This Chaunteclere stood heye vpon his toos
                                
                                  Strecching his necke and huld his eyen clos [folio 254b] 
                                
                                  And gan to crowe lowde for þe nones
                                
                                  And daun Russel stert vp al at oones
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                                  And by þe gargage hente Chaunteclere
                                
                                  And on his bak toward the woode him bere
                                
                                  ffor ȝet was þere noman þat him sewed
                                
                                  O destyne þat mayst not ben eschewed
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                                  Allas þat Chaunteclere fel fro þe bemes
                                
                                  Allas his wyf ne roughte nought of dremes
                                
                                  And on a friday felle al þis meschaunce
                                
                                  O venus þat art goddesse of plesaunce
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                                  Seþines þat þi seruant was þis Chaunteclere
                                
                                  And in þin seruise dede al his powere /
                                
                                  More for delite þan þe world to multiplie
                                
                                  Why woldestow suffre him / on þin day to dye
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                                  O Gaufrede deere maister souerayn
                                
                                  That whan þy worþy king Richard was slayn
                                
                                  Wiþ schotte compleynedest his deþ so sore
                                
                                  Why ne hadde I now þin sentence and þin lore
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                                  The friday for to chyde as deden ȝe /
                                
                                  ffor on a ffriday schortly slayn was he
                                
                                  þenne wolde I schewe ȝou how þat I couþe pleyne
                                
                                  ffor Chaunteclere and for his peyne

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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 584
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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