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 ...

                                
                                     [6-text p 294] 
                                  
                                  This storie is also trewe / I vndertake
                                
                                  As is the book / of launcelot de lake
                                
                                  That wommen holde / in ful gret reuerence
                                
                                  Now wol I turne ageyn / to my sentence
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                                  ¶ A Colfox ful of sly iniquytee
                                
                                  That in the groue had woned / ȝeres three
                                
                                  By hey ymaginacion / fore-cast
                                
                                  The same nyght / thurgh-out the hegges brast
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                                  In-to the ȝerd / there Chaunteclere the faire
                                
                                  was wont / and eke his wyues to repaire
                                
                                  And in a bed of wortes / stille he lay
                                
                                  Til it was passed / vnderne of the day
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                                  waytyng his tyme / on Chauntecleer to falle
                                
                                  As gladly doon / theise homycides alle
                                
                                  That in a-wayt liggen / to murdre men
                                
                                  O false mordrour / liggyng in thy den
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                                  O new scaryot / newe Gaenyloir
                                
                                  ffals dissimilour / o greek Synoir
                                
                                  That broughtest Troye / al vttirly to sorwe
                                
                                  O Chaunteclere / accursed be the morwe
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                                  That þou in-to þat ȝerd / flaugh / fro the beemes
                                
                                  Thow were ful wel I-warned / by thy dreemes
                                
                                  That thilke day / was perilous to thee
                                
                                  But what þat god for-woot / mot nedes bee
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                                  After the opynyoun / of certeyn clerkes
                                
                                  wytnesse oon him / þat any parfyt Clerk is
                                
                                  That in Scole / is gret altricacioun
                                
                                  In this matere / and gret disputisioun
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                                  And hath ben / of an hundred thousand men
                                
                                  But I ne kan nat / bulte it to the bren [folio 193a] 
                                
                                  As can the holy Doctour / Augustyn
                                
                                  Or Boyce / or the Bysshop Bradwardyn
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                                  wheither þat goddis worthy / fore-wetyng
                                
                                  Streyneth me needly / for to doon a thyng
                                
                                  Needly / clepe I / symple necessitee
                                
                                  Or ellis if free chois / be grauntid me

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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 515
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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