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

                                
                                     [6-text p 582] 
                                  
                                  Ȝit haþ þis brid by twenty þousand fold
                                
                                  Leuer to be. in forest wyd and cold
                                
                                  Gon ete wormes and such wrecchidnes
                                
                                  For euer þis brid wil doon his busynes
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                                  To scape out of his cage whan he may
                                
                                  his liberte þe brid desireth ay
                                
                                  let take a cat and foster him wel wiþ mylk/
                                
                                  And tender fleisch and mak his bed of silk/
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                                  And let him see a mous go by þe wal
                                
                                  Anoon he wayueth mylk and fleisch and al
                                
                                  And euery deynte which is in þat hous
                                
                                  Such appetit haþ he to ete þe mous
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                                  lo heer haþ lust his dominacioun
                                
                                  And appetit. flemeth discr[e]scioun
                                
                                  Also a sche wolf haþ a vilayns kynde /
                                
                                  The lewidest. wolf þat sche may fynde
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                                  Or lest of reputacioun him wol sche take
                                
                                  In tyme whan hir lust/ to haue a make/
                                
                                  Alle þis ensamples. tel I by þis men
                                
                                  That ben vntrewe and no þing by wommen
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                                  For men han euer a licorous appetit
                                
                                  On lower þing to parforme her delit
                                
                                  Than on her wyues ben þay neuer so faire
                                
                                  Ne neuer so trewe ne so debonaire
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                                  Fleissch is so newfangil with meschaunce
                                
                                  That we can in no þinge haue plesaunce
                                
                                  That souneþ in to vertu eny while
                                
                                  This phebus which þat þought vpon no gile [folio 249a] 
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                                  Deceyued was for al his iolite
                                
                                  For vnder him anoþer hadde sche/
                                
                                  A man of litil reputacioun
                                
                                  Nought worþ to phebus in comparisoun
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                                  Mor harm it is it happeth ofte so
                                
                                  Of which þer comeþ boþe harm and woo
                                
                                  And so bifel whan phebus was absent
                                
                                  His wif anoon hath for hir lemman sent

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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 584
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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