The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  With-Inne thyn hous / ne be þou no lyon
                                
                                  To thyne suggettȝ / do non oppression
                                
                                  Ne make thyn acqueyntaunce / nat to flee
                                
                                  And Thomas / ȝet eftsones charge I the
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                                  Be war from hire / that in thy bosom slepeth
                                
                                  War froo the serpent / that so slyly crepeth
                                
                                  vnder the gras / and styngeth sotilly
                                
                                  Be war my sone / and herkene paciently
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                                  That twenty thousand men / han lost here lyues
                                
                                  ffor stryuyng with here lemmans / and here wyues
                                
                                  Now syn ȝe han / so holy meeke a wyf
                                
                                  What nedeth ȝow / Thomas to maken strif
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                                  Ther nys I-wysse / no serpent so cruelle
                                
                                  Whan a man tret vp-on his tail / ne half so felle
                                
                                  As womman is / whan she hath caught an Ire
                                
                                  vengeaunce is thanne / al that they desire
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                                  Ire is a synne on [[on, of, overline, later.]]  / of the greete of [[on, of, overline, later.]]  seuene
                                
                                  Abhominable / to the god of heuene
                                
                                  And to him self / it is destruccione
                                
                                  This euery lewed vyker / or Persone
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                                  Gan seyn / how Ire / engendreth homycide
                                
                                  Ire is in soth / executour of pryde
                                
                                  I coude of Ire / seyn so mechil sorwe
                                
                                  My tale shuld laste / til to-morwe
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                                  And þerfore preye I god / bothe day & nyght
                                
                                  An Irous man / god sende him litel myght
                                
                                  It is gret harm / and certes greet pitee
                                
                                  To sette an Irous man / in heye degree
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                                  ¶ Whilom there was / an Irous potestate
                                
                                  As seith Senek / that duryng his estate
                                
                                  vp-on a day / out redyn knyghtes twoo
                                
                                  And as fortune wolde / that it was so
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                                  That oon of hem cam hom / that othir nought
                                
                                  A-noon the knyght / byfore the Iuge is brought
                                
                                  That seide thus / thow hast thy felawe slayne
                                
                                  ffor which I deme the / to the deth certayne

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 226
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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