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

                                
                                     [6-text p 296] 
                                  
                                  He walde haue fledde Bot þat þe fox anone
                                
                                  Sayde gentil sire alas what will ȝe done
                                
                                  Bene ȝe affraide of me þat am ȝoure frende
                                
                                  Certes sire þat bien ȝe vn-hende
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                                  If .I. to ȝowe wolde harme or velanye
                                
                                  .I. am nouht comme ȝoure consel to aspye
                                
                                  Bot trewly þe cause of my comynge
                                
                                  was onely to herken howe þat .I. singe
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                                  For trewly . ȝe haue as mery a steuene
                                
                                  As an Angel haþe þat is in heuene
                                
                                  þer-wiþ ȝe haue in fysik more feleynge
                                
                                  þan hadde Boys or any þat kan singe [folio 223b] 
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                                  Min lorde ȝoure fader god his soule blisse
                                
                                  And eke ȝoure moder of his gentillese
                                
                                  Haue in myne house bien to ȝoure grete ese
                                
                                  And certes sir ful feine wold I ȝowe plese
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                                  Bot for men spekeþ of singeinge [I woll seie.
                                
                                  So mote I broke myn yen tweie.
                                
                                  Sauf ye I ne herd/ neuyr/ man so syng. [Harl. 1758 folio 198a] ]
                                
                                  As dide ȝoure fader in þe morneinge
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                                  Certes it was of hert al þat he sange
                                
                                  And for to make his voice þe more strange
                                
                                  He wolde so peyne him þat wiþ boþ his yȝen
                                
                                  He nost wynke so loude he dide criene
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                                  And stond on his tiptos þere wiþ al
                                
                                  And strecche forþe his nekke longe & smal
                                
                                  And eke he was of suche discrecione
                                
                                  þat þer was no man in no region
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                                  þat him in sange or wisdome myht passe
                                
                                  .I. haue wele redde Dan Burnel þe asse
                                
                                  Amonge his vers þere was a kok
                                
                                  For a prestes sonne ȝaue him a knoke
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                                  Vpon his legges whan he was ȝonge & nyce
                                
                                  He maade him for to lese his benefice
                                
                                  Bot certeine þere is no comparisoun
                                
                                  Be-tuyx þe wisdome & discresioun

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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 585
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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