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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                                  Of ȝoure fader / and of his subtilitee
                                
                                  Now syngeth sire / for seynt Charitee
                                
                                  ¶ lat se / kan ȝe ȝoure fader countrefete
                                
                                  This Chauntecler / his wenges gan to bete
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                                  As man þat coude / his treson nat espie
                                
                                  So was he rauysshed / with his flaterie
                                
                                  Allas ȝe lordes / many a fals flaterour
                                
                                  Is in ȝour court / and many a losengeour [folio 194a] 
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                                  That plesen ȝow wel more / be my feith
                                
                                  Than he that soothfastnesse / vn-to ȝow seith
                                
                                  Redeth Ecclesiast / of flaterie
                                
                                  Beth war ȝe lordes / of here trecherie
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                                  ¶ This Chauntecler stod hye / vp-oon his toos
                                
                                  Strecchynge his nekke / & held hise eyen cloos
                                
                                  And gan to crowe loude / for the nones
                                
                                  And daun Russel the fox / stirt vp at ones
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                                  And by the gargat / hente Chauntecler
                                
                                  And on his bak / vn-to the wode him beer
                                
                                  ffor ȝet ne was þere no man / þat him sewid
                                
                                  O destynee / þat may nat ben eschewed
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                                  Allas that Chauntecler / fley fro the beemes
                                
                                  Allas his wyf / ne roughte nat / of dreemes
                                
                                  And on a friday / fel al this meschaunce
                                
                                  ¶ O venus / þat art goddesse of plesaunce
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                                  Syn þat thyn seruaunt / was this Chauntecleer
                                
                                  And in thy seruyce / dyd al his power
                                
                                  More for delyt / than world to multiplie
                                
                                  Why woltow suffre him / on thy day to dye
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                                  ¶ O Gaufreed / deere Maister souereyn
                                
                                  That whan thy worthy kyng / Richard was slayn
                                
                                  with shot compleynedest / his deeth so sore
                                
                                  why ne had I now / thy science & thy lore
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                                  The friday for to chide / as deden ȝe
                                
                                  ffor on a friday soothly / slayn was he
                                
                                  Than wolde I shewe how / þat I coude pleyne
                                
                                  ffor Chauntecleres drede / & for his peyne

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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 518
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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