The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 377] 
                                  
                                  What makeþ ȝou to han al þis labour
                                
                                  fful many a cause leeue sire somonour
                                
                                  Seyde þis feend but al þing haþ tyme
                                
                                  The day is schort and it is passed prime
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                                  And ȝet ne wan I no þing in þis day
                                
                                  I wil entende to wynnyng if I may
                                
                                  And nat entende oure wittes to declare
                                
                                  ffor broþer myn þi witte is al to bare
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                                  To vnderstonde þough I tolde hem þe
                                
                                  But for þou axest whi labouren we
                                
                                  ffor somtyme ben we goddes instrumentz
                                
                                  And menes to do his comaundementz
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                                  Whan þat him list vpon his creatures
                                
                                  In diuerse acte and in diuers figures
                                
                                  Wiþouten him we han no might certayn
                                
                                  If þat him liste to stonden þer agayn
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                                  And som time at oure praye han we leue
                                
                                  Only þe body and not þe soule greeue /
                                
                                  Witnesse on Iob whom þat we dyden wo
                                
                                  And som tyme han we might of boþe tuo
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                                  þis is to seyn of soule and body eeke
                                
                                  And som tyme we ben suffred for to seeke
                                
                                  vpon a man and do his soule vnreste
                                
                                  Nat his body and al is for þe beste
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                                  Whan he wiþstondeþ oure temptacion
                                
                                  It is a cause of his saluacion
                                
                                  Al be it þat it was not oure entente
                                
                                  he schulde be sauf but þat we wolde him hente
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                                  And som tyme be we seruantz vn-to man [folio 118b] 
                                
                                  As þe erchebisschope seint Dunstan
                                
                                  And to þe apostles seruant/ was I
                                
                                  ȝet telleþ me quod þe somnour feiþfully
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                                  Make ȝe ȝow newe bodyes þus alwey
                                
                                  Of elementz þe feend answerde nay
                                
                                  Som tyme we feyne and som tyme we arise /
                                
                                  Wiþ dede bodyes in ful sondry wise

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 256
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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