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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                                  He wolde han fled / but that the fox a-noon [folio 193b] 
                                
                                  Seide / gentil sire allas / whider wol ȝe goon
                                
                                  Be ȝe affrayed of me / that am ȝoure freend
                                
                                  Now certes / I were worse than a feend
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                                  If I to ȝow wolde harm / or vylanye
                                
                                  I nam nat come / ȝoure counseil for to espie
                                
                                  But trewely the cause / of my comyng
                                
                                  was oonly for to herken / how þat ȝe syng
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                                  ffor trewely ȝe han / as merie a steuene
                                
                                  As any Aungel hath / þat is in heuene
                                
                                  Ther-with ȝe han in Musyke / more felynge
                                
                                  Than had Boice / or any þat can synge
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                                  My lord ȝoure fader / god his soule blisse
                                
                                  And eke ȝoure moder / of hire gentillesse
                                
                                  han in myn hous I-ben / to my gret ese
                                
                                  And certes sire / ful fayn wolde I ȝow plese
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                                  But for men speke of syngynge / I wol seye
                                
                                  So mote I brouke wel / myne eyen tweye
                                
                                  Saue ȝe / I ne herd neuere / man so synge
                                
                                  As dede ȝoure fader / in the morwenynge
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                                  Certes it was of herte / al that he song
                                
                                  And for to make his voys / the more strong
                                
                                  he wolde so peyne him / þat with bothe hise eyen
                                
                                  he muste wynke / so loude he wolde cryen
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                                  And stonden on his tippton / ther-with-al
                                
                                  And strecche forth his nekke / long & smal
                                
                                  And eke he was / of swich discrecioun
                                
                                  That þere nas noman / in no regioun
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                                  That him in song or wysdam / myghte passe
                                
                                  I haue wel red / in Daun Burnel the Asse
                                
                                  Among his vers / how þat þere was a Cok
                                
                                  That for a Preestes sone / ȝaf him a knok
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                                  Vp-on his leg / whil he was ȝong & nyce
                                
                                  He made him for to lese / his benefice
                                
                                  But certyn þere is / no comparisoun
                                
                                  Betwix the wysdom / & discrecioun

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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 517
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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