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

                                
                                     [6-text p 584] 
                                  
                                  Be-helde her werke & seide neuere a worde
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                                  And whan þat home was commen phebus þe lorde
                                
                                  This Crowe sange kokkow kokkowe cokkowe
                                
                                  What birde quod Phebus what songe singes þou
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                                  Ne were þow wonte so merilye to singe
                                
                                  þat to myne herte it was a reioysinge
                                
                                  To here þi voice alace what songe is þis
                                
                                  Be god quod he .I. singe nouht amys
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                                  Phebus quod he for al þi worþinesse
                                
                                  For al þi beute and þi gentillesse
                                
                                  For al þi songe & al þi Minstralcye
                                
                                  For al þi wayteinge blered is þine eye
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                                  Wiþ one of luytel reputacion
                                
                                  Nouht worþ to þe as in comparison
                                
                                  The mountance of a gnate so mot [I] priue
                                
                                  For on þi bedde þi wif .I. sawe him swyue
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                                  What wile ȝe more þe crowe anone him tolde
                                
                                  Be sadde tokenes & be wordes bolde
                                
                                  Howe þat his wif hadde done her lycherie
                                
                                  Him to grete schame & to grete velanye
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                                  And tolde him oft he sawe it wiþ his eyȝen
                                
                                  This Phebus gan awaiwarde for to wrien
                                
                                  Him þouht his sorweful herte a brast in tuo
                                
                                  His bowe he bente & sette þerinne a floo
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                                  And in his .Ire þan haþe he his wif sleyne
                                
                                  This es þe effecte þere is nomore to seine [folio 228b] 
                                
                                  For sorwe of whiche he brak his mynstralcy
                                
                                  Bothe harpe & Lute getern & sautrie
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                                  And eke he brak his arwes & his bowe
                                
                                  And after þat þus spake he to þe crowe
                                
                                  Traytour quod he wiþ tonge of scorpione
                                
                                  þou hast me brouht to my confusione
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                                  Alas þat .I. was wrouht whi nere .I. dede
                                
                                  O dere wif o Iemme of lustihede
                                
                                  That were to me so sadde & eke so trewe
                                
                                  Nowe liest þou dede wiþ face pale of hewe

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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 598
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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