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

                                
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                                  That ye shul haue / a feuere terciane
                                
                                  Or an Agew / þat may be youre bane
                                
                                  A day / or two / ye shul han degestyues
                                
                                  Of wormes / er ye take youre laxatyues
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                                  Of Lauriol / Centaure and ffumetere
                                
                                  Or ellis of Ellebor / that groweth there
                                
                                  Of Katapuce / or of Gaytrys beryis
                                
                                  Of herbe yue growyng in oure yerd / they merye is
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                                  Pekke hem vp right as ther growe / and ete hem In
                                
                                  Be myrie housbonde / for youre fader kyn
                                
                                  Dredeth no dreem / I kan sey yow namoore
                                
                                  ¶ Madame quod he / grant mercy of youre loore
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                                  But nathelees / as touchyng dann Catoun
                                
                                  That hath of wisdom / swich a gret renoun
                                
                                  Thogh þat he bad / no dremes for to drede
                                
                                  By god men may / in olde bokes rede
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                                  Of many a man / moore of auctoritee
                                
                                  Than euere Caton was / so mote I thee
                                
                                   [Rats.]  [folio 101b] [T]hat al the reuers seyn / of his sentence
                                
                                  And han wel founden / by experience
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                                  That dremes / ben signyficacions
                                
                                  As wel / of ioye / as tribulacions
                                
                                  That folk enduren / in this lyf present
                                
                                  Ther nedeth / make of this noon argument
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                                  The verray preue / sheweth it in dede
                                
                                  ¶ Oon of the gretteste Auctour / þat men rede
                                
                                  Seith thus / þat whilom two felawes wente
                                
                                  On pilgrymage / in a ful good entente
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                                  And happed so / they coomen in a town
                                
                                  Where as ther was / swich congregacioun
                                
                                  Of peple / and eek so streit of herbergage
                                
                                  That they ne founde / as muche as o cotage
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                                  In which they bothe / myghte ylogged be
                                
                                  Wherfore / they mosten of necessitee
                                
                                  As for that nyght departe compaignye
                                
                                  And ech of hem / gooth to his hostelrye

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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 231
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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