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Sweuenes / engendren of repleccions
And ofte of fume / and of compleccions
Whan humours / been to habundant in a wight
¶ Certes this dreem / which ye han met to-nyght
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Cometh / of greet superfluytee
Of youre rede Colera pardee
Which causeth folk / to dreden in hir dremes
Of Arwes / and of fyre with rede lemes
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Of grete beestes / that they wol hem byte
Of contekes and of whelpes / grete and lyte
Right as the humour/ of Malencolie
Causeth ful many a man / in sleepe to crie
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ffor feere of blake beres / or boles blake
Or elles / blake deueles wole hem take
¶ Of othere humours / koude I telle also
That werken many a man / in sleepe ful wo
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But I wol passe / as lightly as I kan
LO Caton which þat was so wys a man
Seyde he nat thus / ne do no fors of dremes
¶ Now sire quod she / whan ye flee fro the bemes
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ffor goddes loue / as taak som laxatyf
Vp peril of my soule / and of my lyf
I conseille yow the beste / I. wol nat lye
That bothe of Colere / and of Malencolye
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Ye purge yow / and for ye shal nat tarie
Though in this toun / is noon Apothecarie
I shal my self. to herbes techen yow
That shul been / for youre hele / and for youre prow
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And in oure yeerd / tho herbes shal I fynde
The whiche han / of hire propretee by kynde
To purge yow / bynethe and eek aboue
fforyet nat this / for goddes owene loue
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Ye been ful coleryk of compleccion
Ware the sonne / in his ascencion
Ne fynde yow nat repleet of humours hoote.
And if it do / I dar wel leye a grote
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