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

                                
                                  Thanne may men wel / by this ordre discerne
                                
                                  That thilke moeuere / stable is and eterne
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                                  Wel may men knowe / but it be a fool
                                
                                  That euery part . is diryued from his hool
                                
                                  ffor nature / hath nat taken his bigynnyng
                                
                                  Of no partie / or of cantel of a thyng
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                                  But of a thyng . that parfit is and stable
                                
                                  Descendynge so / til it be corrumpable
                                
                                  And ther fore / for his wise purueiaunce
                                
                                  He hath / so wel biset his ordinaunce
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                                  That specis of thynges / and progressions
                                
                                  Shullen enduren / by successions
                                
                                  And noght eterne / with outen any lye
                                
                                  This maistow vnderstonde / and seen at Iye
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                                  ¶ Loo the ook / that hath so long a norisshynge [folio 40a] 
                                
                                  ffro the tyme / that it first gynneth sprynge
                                
                                  And hath so long a lyf / as ye may see
                                
                                  Yet at the laste / wasted is the tree
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                                  ¶ Considreth eek / how þat the harde stoon
                                
                                  Vnder oure foot on which we ryde and goon
                                
                                  It wasteth / as it lyth by the weye
                                
                                  The brode Ryuer / som tyme wexeth dreye
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                                  The grete townes / se we wane and wende
                                
                                  Thanne se ye / þat al this thyng hath ende
                                
                                  Of man and womman / se we wel also
                                
                                  That nedeth / in oon of thise termes two
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                                  This is to seyn / in youthe / or ellis age
                                
                                  He moot be deed / the kyng as shal a page
                                
                                  Som in his bed / som in the depe see
                                
                                  Som in the large feeld / as ye may se
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                                  Ther helpeth noght al gooth that ilke weye
                                
                                  Thanne may I seyn / þat al this thyng moot deye
                                
                                  What maketh this? but Iuppiter the kyng
                                
                                  That is Prince / and cause of alle thyng
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                                  Conuertyng / al vn to his propre welle
                                
                                  ffrom which he is diryued sooth to telle

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 86
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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