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

                                
                                  Than maie men wele by þis order discerne
                                
                                  That þilke mouere stable is and eterne
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                                  Wele maie men knowe bot it be foole
                                
                                  That euery partie darrained fromme his hoole
                                
                                  ffor nature haþe nouȝt take his begynnynge
                                
                                  Of no partie nor of cantel of a thinge
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                                  Bot of a thinge þat parfite is and stable
                                
                                  Descendeinge so to it be corrumpable
                                
                                  And þere-for for . his wise purueance
                                
                                  He haþ so wele be-sette his ordenance
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                                  That specie of þinges and progressions
                                
                                  Schullen endure be successions
                                
                                  And nouht eterne wiþ-oute any lye
                                
                                  Þis maystowe vnderstonden and seen att eye
                                  Line 3016 
                                
                                  Lo þe oke þat haþe so longe a norissheynge [XII. 7.] 
                                
                                  ffro þe time þat it first biginneþ to springe
                                
                                  And haþ so longe a lif as ȝe maye see
                                
                                  Ȝut att þe laste wasted is þe tree
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                                  Considereþ eke howe þat þe harde stone
                                
                                  Vnde[r] owre fote on whiche we trede and gone
                                
                                  Ȝit wasteþ it as it liþe be þe weie
                                
                                  The brode riuer som time waxeþ dreie
                                  Line 3024 
                                
                                  The grete townes see we wane and wende
                                
                                  Than ȝe see þat al þis þinge haþ ende
                                
                                  Of man and womman see we wele also [XII. 8.] 
                                
                                  Þat nedeþ in oone of þe teremes tuo
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                                  Þis is to seine in ȝouþe or elles age
                                
                                  He mote be dede þe kinge as schal a page
                                
                                  Som in his bede some in þe depe see. [XII. 10.] 
                                
                                  Some in þe large felde as ȝe maie see.
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                                  There helpeþ nouht al goþe þat ilke weie
                                
                                  Þan may .I. seie þat al þis þinge mote deie
                                
                                  What makeþ þis bot Iubiter þe kinge [folio 38a] 
                                
                                  That is prince . and cause of al þinge
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                                  Conuertynge all vn-to his propre wille
                                
                                  ffro whiche it is darreyned soþe to tylle

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 86
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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