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

                                
                                     [6-text p 505] 
                                  
                                  An hundred þousand bodyes of mankynde /
                                
                                  han rokkes slayn al be þey nouȝt in mynde [folio 161b] 
                                
                                  Which mankynde is a fair part of þy werk
                                
                                  That þou it madest y-like to þin hond werk
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                                  Thenne semed it ȝe hadde a gret chierte
                                
                                  Toward mankynde but how þan may it be
                                
                                  That ȝe suche menys make it to distroyen
                                
                                  Whiche menys doþ no good but euer annoyen
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                                  I wot wel clerkes woln sayn as hem leste
                                
                                  By argumentz þat al þing is for þe beste
                                
                                  Though I ne can þe causes for soþe knowe
                                
                                  but þilke god þat made wynd to blowe
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                                  As kepe my lord þis is my conclusion
                                
                                  To clerkes lete I al disputacion
                                
                                  But wolde god þat alle þe rokkes blake
                                
                                  Were sonken in to helle for his sake /
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                                  These rokkes sleen myn herte for feere
                                
                                  Thus wolde sche sayn with many a pitous teere
                                
                                  hire freendes sawe þat nas no disport
                                
                                  To romen by þe see but discomfort
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                                  And schopen for to pleyen som where elles /
                                
                                  þey leden hire by Ryueres and by welles
                                
                                  And eek in oþer places delitables
                                
                                  þey daunce and pleye at Chesse and at tables
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                                  So on a day right on þe morne tyde
                                
                                  vnto a gardyne þat was right þere besyde
                                
                                  In which þat þey hadde made here ordynance
                                
                                  Of vitaile and of oþer puruyaunce
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                                  They gon and pleyen hem al þe longe day
                                
                                  And þis was on þe sixte morwe of may
                                
                                  Which may hadde peynted wiþ his softe schoures /
                                
                                  This gardyn ful of leues and of floures
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                                  And wiþ crafte of mannes hande so curiously
                                
                                  Arayed haþ þis gardyn trayelly
                                
                                  That neuer nas þer gardyn of such prys
                                
                                  But if it were þe verrey paradys

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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 356
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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