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

                                
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                                  hire frendes sawe hire herte gan to slake /
                                
                                  And preyed hire on knees for goddes sake [folio 161a] 
                                
                                  To come and rome hire in companye
                                
                                  Away to dryue hire derke fantasye
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                                  And fynally sche graunted þat requeste
                                
                                  ffor wel sche sawe it was for þe beste
                                
                                  Now stood hire castel faste by þe see
                                
                                  And often wiþ hire freendes walked sche
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                                  hire to disporte on þe banke on heih
                                
                                  Wher as sche many schippe and barge seih
                                
                                  Seylinge here cours where hem luste to go
                                
                                  But ȝit was þere a parcelle of hir wo
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                                  ffor to hir self ful often seyde sche
                                
                                  Is þer no schippe of so many as I se
                                
                                  Wole brynge home my lord þen wolde myn herte
                                
                                  Al waryssche of þis bitter peynes smerte
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                                  Anoþer tyme þer wole sche sitte and þinke
                                
                                  And caste hire eyen dounward fro þe brynke
                                
                                  But whan sche saugh þe grisly rokkes blake
                                
                                  ffor verray fere so wolde hire herte quake
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                                  þat on hire feet sche mighte nought hire sustene
                                
                                  Thenne wolde sche sitte a doun vpon þe grene
                                
                                  And pitously in to þe see byholde
                                
                                  And sayn right þus wiþ sorowful hertes colde
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                                  Eterne god þat þurgh þy puruyaunce
                                
                                  ledest þe world by certein gouernaunce
                                
                                  In ydelnesse as men sayn ȝe no þing make
                                
                                  But lord þese grisely feendly rokkes blake
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                                  That semen raþer a foul confusion
                                
                                  Of werk þen any fayr creacion
                                
                                  Of whiche a parfyt god and a stable
                                
                                  Why han ȝe wrouȝt þis werk vnresonable
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                                  ffor by þis werke south north est and west
                                
                                  Ther nys y-fostred man ne bryd ne best
                                
                                  hit doþ no good to my witt but annoyeþ
                                
                                  Se ȝe nouȝt lorde how mankynde it destroyeþ

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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 355
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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