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

                                
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                                  Sweuenes / engendren of replexions
                                
                                  And ofte / of fume / and of complexions
                                
                                  Whan humours / ben to habundant in a wight
                                
                                  Certes this dreem / which ye han met to nyght
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                                  Comth / of the grete superfluitee
                                
                                  Of youre rede Colera pardee
                                
                                  Which causeth folk / to dreden in hir dremes
                                
                                  Of Arwes / and of fyr with rede lemes
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                                  Of rede bestes / that they wol hem byte
                                
                                  Of contek 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 fere of blake beres / or boles blake
                                
                                  Or ellis / blake deueles wol hem take
                                
                                  Of othere humours / koude I telle also [folio 101a] 
                                
                                  That werken many a man / in sleep 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 we fle fro thise bemes
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                                  ffor goddes loue / as taak som laxatif
                                
                                  Vp peril of my soule / and of my lif
                                
                                  I conseile 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 tarye
                                
                                  Thogh/ in this town / is noon Apothecarye
                                
                                  I shal my self / to herbes techen yow
                                
                                  That shul ben / for youre heele and for youre prow
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                                  And in oure yerd / 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 ben ful colerik of complexion
                                
                                  Ware the sonne / in his Ascencion
                                
                                  Ne fynde yow nat replet of humours hote
                                
                                  And if it do / I dar wel leye a grote

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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 230
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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