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

                                
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                                  Mette he nat þat he sat vp-on a tree
                                
                                  Which signyfide / he sholde an hanged be
                                
                                  ¶ Lo here Andromacha / Ectores wyf
                                
                                  That day that Ector / sholde lese his lyf
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                                  She dremed / on the same nyght biforn
                                
                                  How þat the lyf of Ector sholde be lorn
                                
                                  If thilke day / he wente in-to bataille
                                
                                  She warned hym / but it myghte nat auaille
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                                  He wente for to fighte / nathelees
                                
                                  And he was slayn anon / of Achilles
                                
                                  But thilke tale / is al to long to telle
                                
                                  And eek / it is ney day / I may nat dwelle
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                                  Shortly I seye / as for conclusion
                                
                                  That I shal han / of this auysion
                                
                                  Aduersitee / and I seye forther moor
                                
                                  That I ne telle / of laxat·yues no stoor
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                                  ffor they ben venymes / I woot it wel
                                
                                  I hem deffie / I loue hem neuer a del
                                
                                  ¶ Now lat vs speke of myrthe and stynte al this
                                
                                  Madame Pertelote / so haue I blys
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                                  Of o thyng god hath sent me large grace
                                
                                  ffor whan I se / the beautee / of youre face
                                
                                  Ye ben so scarlet reed / aboute youre eyen
                                
                                  It maketh / al my drede for to deyen
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                                  ffor also siker / as In principio
                                
                                  Mulier / est hominis confusio
                                
                                  Madame / the sentence / of this latyn is
                                
                                  Womman / is mannes ioye and al his blys
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                                  ffor whan I feele a nyght youre softe syde
                                
                                  Al be it þat I may nat on yow ryde
                                
                                  ffor þat oure perche / is maad so narwe allas
                                
                                  I am so ful / of Ioye and of solas
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                                  That I deffie / bothe sweuene and dreem
                                
                                  And with that word / he fley doun fro the beem
                                
                                  ffor it was day / and eke hise hennes alle
                                
                                  And with a chuk he gan hem for to calle

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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 236
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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