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

                                
                                     [6-text p 299] 
                                  
                                  Out of þe huyues come þe swarm of bees
                                
                                  þe gees for feere flowen ouer þe trees
                                
                                  So hidous was þe noyse a benedicite
                                
                                  Certes he Iakke strawe and his meynee
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                                  Ne maden neuere schoutes half so schrille
                                
                                  Whan þat þay wolden eny flemyng kille
                                
                                  As þat ilke day was maad vpon þe ffox
                                
                                  Of bras þey broughte beemes and of Box
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                                  Of horne and boon in whiche þey pouped
                                
                                  And þer-wiþal þey schriched and þey schouted
                                
                                  It semed as þat heuen schulde falle
                                
                                  Now goode men I pray ȝou herkneþ alle
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                                  Lo how fortune turneþ sodeinly
                                
                                  The hope and eek þe pruyde of here enuye [folio 255b] 
                                
                                  This Cok þat lay vpon þis foxes bak
                                
                                  In alle his drede vnto þe fox he spak
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                                  And sayde sire if I were as ȝe
                                
                                  Ȝet schuld I say as wis god helpe me
                                
                                  Turneþ aȝein ȝe proude cherles alle
                                
                                  A verray pestilence vpon ȝou falle
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                                  Now am I come vnto þis woodes syde
                                
                                  Maugre ȝour heed þe cok schal here abyde
                                
                                  I wole him ete in feiþ and þat anon
                                
                                  The ffox answerde in feiþ it schal be don
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                                  and [as] he spak þat word al sodeinly
                                
                                  This Cok brak fro his mouþ delyuerly
                                
                                  An heigh vpon a tree he fleigh anoon
                                
                                  And whan þe fox saugh þat he was goon
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                                  Allas quod he O Chaunteclere allas
                                
                                  I haue quod he don to ȝow a trespas
                                
                                  In als moche as I made ȝou afferd
                                
                                  When I ȝou hente and brought out of þe ȝerd
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                                  But sire I dede it nought in no wicked entent
                                
                                  Come doun and I schal telle ȝou what I ment
                                
                                  I schal ȝou seye soþ god helpe me so /
                                
                                  Nay þanne quod he I schrewe vs boþe tuo /

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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 586
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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