The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 296] 
                                  
                                  he wold han fled but þat þe fox anon
                                
                                  Said gentil sire / allas why wol ȝe goon
                                
                                  Be ȝe affrayd of me þat am ȝoure frend
                                
                                  Certes I were worse þan any feend
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                                  If I to ȝow wold harm or vilonye
                                
                                  I am nouȝt come ȝour counsail to espye
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
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                                  But trewely ȝe haue als mery a steuen
                                
                                  As eny aungel hath þat is in heuen
                                
                                  Ther wiþ ȝe han in musik more felynge
                                
                                  Than had Boece or eny þat can synge
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                                  My lord ȝour fader god his soule blesse /
                                
                                  And ȝoure moder of her gentilesse
                                
                                  han in myn hous I-been to my gret ease
                                
                                  And Certes sire ful fayn wold I ȝow please
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                                  But for men speke of syngyng I wol say
                                
                                  So mot I brouke wel myn yen tway
                                
                                  Saue ȝe I herde neuer man so synge
                                
                                  As dede ȝour fadir in þe morwenynge [folio 244b] 
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                                  Certes it was of hert al þat he song
                                
                                  And for to make his vois þe more strong
                                
                                  he wold so peynen him þat wiþ boþe his yen
                                
                                  he moste wynke so lowde he wolde crien
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                                  And stonden on his typtoon þer wiþ al
                                
                                  And streche forth his necke long and smal
                                
                                  And eek/ he was of such discressioun
                                
                                  That þer nas no man in no regioun
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                                  That him in song or wisdom mighte passe
                                
                                  I haue wel rad in Daun Burnel thasse
                                
                                  Among his verses how þer was a Cok
                                
                                  For a prestes sone ȝaf him a knok
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                                  vpon his leg whil he was ȝong and nyce
                                
                                  He made him for to lese his benefice
                                
                                  But certeyn þer is no comparisoun
                                
                                  Bitwix þe wisdom and discressioun

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 573
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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