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

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Title

Author

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.

Publication

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

1868-1879.

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"The Hengwrt 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/AGZ8233.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2025.

Pages

[Adam.]

                  
                    Lo Adam in the feld of Damyssene [[this stanza is in the margin in a later 15th-century hand]] 
                  
                    With godes owne fynger wrowt was he ..
                  
                    And nat bygeten of mannes sperme vnclene ..
                  
                    And welte al paradiis sauyng o tree ..
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                    Had neuer wordly man so hey degre ..
                  
                    As Adam til he for mysgouernance ..
                  
                    Was dryue owt of his hey prosperitee ..
                  
                    To labour and to helle and to meschance

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