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

                                
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                                  In sighte of othere shippes / it bisyde
                                
                                  That with hem seyled / at the same tyde
                                
                                  And therfore / faire Pertelote so deere
                                
                                  By swiche ensamples olde / maystow leere
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                                  That no man / sholde ben to recchelees
                                
                                  Of dremes / for I sey thee doutelees
                                
                                  That many a dreem / ful soore is for to drede
                                
                                  ¶ Lo / in the lyf of Seint Kenelm I rede
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                                  That was Kenulphus sone / the noble Kyng
                                
                                  Of Mertenrike / how Kenelm mette a thyng
                                
                                  Alite / er he was mordred / on a day
                                
                                  His mordre / in his auysion he say
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                                  His norice / hym expowned euery del
                                
                                  His sweuene / and bad hym for to kepe hym wel
                                
                                  ffor trayson / but he nas but .vij. yeer old
                                
                                  And therfore / litel tale hath he told
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                                  Of any dreem / so holy was his herte
                                
                                  By god / I hadde leuere than my sherte
                                
                                  That ye hadde rad his legende / as haue I
                                
                                  Dame Pertelote / I sey yow trewely
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                                  Macrobeus / that writ the Auysion
                                
                                  In Affrike / of the worthy Cipion
                                
                                  Affermeth dremes / and seith þat they ben
                                
                                  Warnynge of thynges / þat men after sen
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                                  ¶ And forther moore / I pray yow looketh wel
                                
                                  In the olde testament of Danyel
                                
                                  If he heeld dremes / any vanytee
                                
                                  ¶ Rede eek of Ioseph / and there shul ye see
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                                  Wher dremes be som tyme / I sey nat alle
                                
                                  Warnynge of thynges / þat shul after falle
                                
                                  ¶ Looke of Egipte / the Kyng Daun Pharao
                                
                                  His bakere / and his butiller also
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                                  Wher they ne felte / noon effect in dremes
                                
                                  Who so wol seke / Actes of sondry Remes
                                
                                   [Rats.]  [folio 103b] [M]ay rede of dremes / many a wonder thyng
                                
                                  ¶ Lo Cresus / which þat was of Lyde kyng

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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 235
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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