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

[6-text p 145] Ther euery wight saue he / maister and knaue Was with the leon frete / er he asterte No wight but god / þat he bar in his herte Line 476
¶ God liste to shewe / his wonderful miracle In hire / for we sholde seen / his myghty werkes Crist/ which þat is / to euery harm triacle By certein menes ofte / as knowen clerkes Line 480 Dooth thyng for certein ende / þat ful derk is To mannes wit þat for oure ignoraunce Ne konne noght knowe / his prudent purueiaunce Line 483
¶ Now sith she was nat / at the feste yslawe Who kepte hire / fro the drenchyng in the see Who kepte Ionas / in the fisshes mawe Til he / was spowted vp at Nynyuee Line 487 Wel may men knowe / it was no wight but hee That kepte peple Ebrayk / from hir drenchyng With drye feet thurgh out the see passyng Line 490
¶ Who bad / the foure Spiritz of tempest That power han / tanoyen lond and See Bothe North and South / and also west and Est Anoyeth neither / See / ne land / ne tree Line 494 Soothly / the comaundour of that was hee That fro the tempest ay this womman kepte As wel / whan she wook as whan she slepte Line 497
¶ Wher myghte this womman / mete and drynke haue [folio 119a] Thre yeer and moore / how lasteth hir vitaille Who fedde the Egipcien Marie / in the Caue Or in desert / no wight but crist sanz faille Line 501 ffyue thousand folk / it was as greet meruaille With loues fyue / and fisshes two to fede God sente his foyson / at hir grete nede Line 504
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The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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