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 ...

                                
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                                  To doo þat same thyng / or do it nought
                                
                                  Though god forn-woot it / or þat it was wrought
                                
                                  Or if his wityng / streyneth neuere a del
                                
                                  But by necessite / condicionel
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                                  I wole nat han to done / of swich matere
                                
                                  My tale is of the Cok / as ȝe may heere
                                
                                  That took his counseil / of his wyf / with sorwe
                                
                                  To walken in the ȝerd / vp-oon þat morwe
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                                  That he had mette þat dreem / þat I ȝow tolde
                                
                                  Wommens counseils / ben ful often colde
                                
                                  Wommannes counseil / brought vs first to woo
                                
                                  And made Adam / fro Paradys to goo
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                                  There as he was ful merie / & wel at ese
                                
                                  But for I not to whom / it myght displese
                                
                                  If I counseil of wommen / wolde blame
                                
                                  Passe ouer / for I seide it in my game
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                                  Rede auctoures / ther they trete of swich matere
                                
                                  And what they seyn of wommen / ȝe moun heere
                                
                                  Theise ben the Cokkes wordes / & nat myne
                                
                                  I kan noon harm / on no womman deuyne
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                                  ¶ ffaire in the sond / to bathe myrily
                                
                                  lith Pertelote / and hire sustres by
                                
                                  Ageyne the sonne / and Chauntecler so free
                                
                                  Sang meriere / than the Mermayde in the see
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                                  ffor Phisiologus / seith sikirly
                                
                                  how þat they syngen wel / and merily
                                
                                  ¶ And so bifel / as þat he cast his eye
                                
                                  A-mong the wortes / on a boterflye
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                                  he was war of this fox / þat lay ful lowe
                                
                                  No thyng / ne liste him thanne / for to crowe
                                
                                  But cried a-noon / Kok / Cok / & vp he stirte
                                
                                  As man þat was affraied / in his herte
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                                  ffor naturely / a beest desireth flee
                                
                                  ffrom his contrarie / if þat he may it se
                                
                                  Though he neuere erst / had seen it / with his eye
                                
                                  This Chauntecleer / whan he gan him espye

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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 516
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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