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 584] 
                                  
                                  Byheld her werk/ and seid neuer a word
                                
                                  And whan þat home was com / Phebus þe lord.
                                
                                  The crowe sang Cukkow Cukkow Cukkow
                                
                                  What bird koth Phebus / what song syngest þou
                                  Line 244 
                                
                                  Ne were þou wont so merely / to syng
                                
                                  That to my hert it was a reioysyng
                                
                                  To here þy voice / allas what song is this /
                                
                                  By god koth he I syng nat amys
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                                  Phebus koth he / for all þy worthynesse
                                
                                  ffor all þy beautee / and þy gentillesse
                                
                                  ffor all þy song / and all þy mynstralcye
                                
                                  ffor all þy waytyng / blered is thyn yie
                                  Line 252 
                                
                                  With one of litle reputacion
                                
                                  Nat worth to the in comparison
                                
                                  The mountaunce of a gnatte so mot I thryve
                                
                                  ffor on thy bedde / þy wyf I sawe hym swyve /
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                                  What woll ye more / þe crowe anoon hym told [Eg. 2726 folio 239b] 
                                
                                  By sadde tokenes / and by wordes bold
                                
                                  How þat his wyf / hade don hir leccherie
                                
                                  Hym to grete shame / and to grete velanye
                                  Line 260 
                                
                                  And told hym eft / he saw it with his yien
                                
                                  This Phebus / gan a-way-ward for to wrien
                                
                                  And thought his sorowfull hert brast a two
                                
                                  His bowe he bent/ and sette there in a floo
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                                  And in his Ire / his wyf / þan hath he slayn
                                
                                  This is theffect / there is no more to sayn
                                
                                  ffor sorow of which / he brake his mynstralsye
                                
                                  Both harpe and leute / gytern and sautrye
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                                  And eke he brake his arowes / and his bowe /
                                
                                  And after þat þus spake he to the Crowe
                                
                                  Traytour koth he / with tung of Scorpion
                                
                                  Thow hast me brought / to my confusion
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                                  Allas þat I was wrought / why nere I dede
                                
                                  O dere wyf / gemme / of lustihede
                                
                                  That were to me so sad / and eke so trewe
                                
                                  Now lyst / þou dede / with face pale of hewe

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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 579
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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