[6-text p 300]
And ferst I schrewe my self boþe blood and bones
If þou begile me ofter þan ones /
Thou schalt nomore wiþ þin flaterye
Do me to synge and wynke wiþ myn ye
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ffor he þat wynkeþ whan he schulde se
As wisly god let him neuer þe
Nay quod þe fox god ȝiue him meschaunce
That is so vndiscret of gouernaunce
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þat iangleþ whan he schulde haue pees
Lo suche it is for to be recheles /
and necligent and trusteþ on flaterye
But ȝe þat halden þis tale a folye
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As of a fox and of a cok and an hen
Takeþ þe moralite goode men [folio 256a]
ffor seint poule saiþ / alle þat writen is
To oure doctrine / it is y-writen y-wis
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Takeþ þe fruit/ and leteþ þe chaff be stille
Now goode god if þat it be þin wille /
As seiþ my lord so make vs alle goode men
And bringe vs alle to his heihe blisse ameN
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Here endeþ þe Nonne prestes tale
