The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  To do þat same þinge or to do it nouȝt
                                
                                  þouhe god for-wote it ar it was wrouht
                                
                                  Or of his weteinge streyneþ neuere a dele
                                
                                  Bot be necessite condicionele
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                                  .I. wil nowht haue to done of suche Matier
                                
                                  Mi tale is of a koke as ȝe maie here [folio 223a] 
                                
                                  That toke his counsel of his wif with sorwe
                                
                                  To walken in þe ȝerde vpon þe morwe
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                                  þat he hadde mette þe dreme as .I. ȝowe tolde
                                
                                  Wemmen counsel bien ful often colde
                                
                                  Wemmen counsel brouht vs first to woo
                                
                                  And maade Adam fro paradise to go
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                                  þere as he was ful mery & wele att ese
                                
                                  Bot for .I. note whome .I. miht . it displese
                                
                                  If .I. counsel of wemmen wolde blame
                                
                                  Passe ouere for .I. said it in my game
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                                  Rede Auctors where þei trete of suche matier
                                
                                  And what þei seine of wemmen hier
                                
                                  þese biene þe kokkes wordes & nouht myne
                                
                                  .I. kan no harme of no womman devine
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                                  Faire in þe sande to baþe hire merilye
                                
                                  Lyþe pertelote & hire susters bye
                                
                                  Aȝeine þe sunne & chaunteclere so fre
                                
                                  Sange merier þat þe meri mere-maide in þe see
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                                  For Phisiologus seiþe witterly
                                
                                  How þat þei singen wele & merely
                                
                                  And so be-fell as he kest his yȝe
                                
                                  Amonges þe wortes vpon a butterflye
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                                  He was ware of þis fox þat ley ful lowe
                                
                                  Noþinge lust him þan to crowe
                                
                                  Bot cride anone kok kok & vp he sterte
                                
                                  As a man was affraide in his herte
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                                  For naturaly a beste desireþ to flee
                                
                                  Fro his contrarie whan he maie it see
                                
                                  Þeihe he neuere hadde seen it erst wiþ his ye
                                
                                  The chaunteclere when he gan him a-spye

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 584
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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