The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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Author

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.

Publication

London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,

1868-1879.

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"The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AGZ8232.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 27, 2025.

Pages

[Adam.]

                  
                    Loo Adam / in the feeld of Damyssene [¶ Adam] 
                  
                    With goddes owene fynger/ wroght was he
                  
                    And nat bigeten / of mannes sperme vnclene
                  
                    And welte all Paradys / sauynge o tree
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                    Hadde neuere worldly man so heigh degree
                  
                    As Adam / til he for mysgouernance
                  
                    Was dryuen / out of hys hye prosperitee
                  
                    To labour and to helle / and to meschance

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