THE TALE（第7页）

smitenottoosoon，erethatyeweete*why，*know

and*beadvised*wellandsickerly***consider**surely

ereye*doanyexecution*takeanyaction

uponyourire*forsuspicion.uponyouranger*

alas!athousandfolkhathrakelire

foullyfordone，andbroughttheminthemire.

alas!forsorrowiwillmyselfslee**slay

andtothecrow，"ofalsethief，"saidhe，

"iwilltheequiteanonthyfalsetale.

thousungwhilom*likeanynighale，*onceonatime

nowshaltthou，falsethief，thysongforegon，**lose

andekethywhitefeatherseveryone，

noreverinallthylifeshaltthouspeak;

thusshallmenonatraitorbeawreak.*revenged

thouandthineoffspringevershallbeblake，**black

noreversweetenoiseshallyemake，

butevercryagainst*tempestandrain，*before，inwarningof

intokenthatthroughtheemywifeisslain."

andtothecrowhestart，*andthatanon，*sprang

andpulldhiswhitefeatherseveryone，

andmadehimblack，andrefthimallhissong，

andekehisspeech，andoutatdoorhimf露n

untothedevil，*whichihimbetake;**towhomimendhim*

andforthiscausebeallcrowesblake.

lordings，bythisensample，iyoupray，

beware，andtakekeep*whatthatyesay;*heed

nortellenevermaninallyourlife

howthatanothermanhathdighthiswife;

hewillyouhatertallycertain.

dansolon，aswiseclerkessayn，

teachethamantokeephistonguewell;