Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

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

. . . . . [line out: no gap in the MS.] Alas why pleine men so in Comune On purueance of god or of fortune 1252 þat ȝeueþe hem ful of in many a gise Wele bet þan þei can hem self deuise Som man desireþ for to haue richesse þat cause is of his mordre or grete sekenesse 1256 And som man wolde owte of his prison fayne That in his house is of his meine sleyne. Infinite harmes bene in þis matiere We wote nowht what þinge we praien hiere 1260 We faren as he þat dronken is as a mouse A dronken man wote wele he haþe an house Bot he note whiche þe riht waie is þedere [folio 17a] And to a dronken man þe waie is scleþere 1264 And certes in þis werlde so faren we We seken fast after felicite. Bot we gone wronge oft ful trewli Thus maie we seine all and namelyche .I. 1268 That wende and had a grete opinione That if .I. myht scippe fro prisone Than had .I. b[e]ne in Ioye and parfit hele There nowe .I. am exiled fro my wele 1272 Sen þat .I. may not sene ȝowe Emelye [III. 75.] .I. am bot dede þer nyse no remedie ¶ Vpon þat oþere side Palamon Whan þat he wiste þat Arcite was agone 1276 Suche sorwe he makeþ þat þe grete toure Resouneþ of his ȝellinge and clamour The pore fettres on his schinnes grete Were of his bitter salte teres wete 1280 Alas quod he Arcita Cosyn myne Of al oure strif god wote þe fruyt is þine Thow walkes now in Thebes att þi large And of my woo þou ȝeuest litel charge 1284 Thou maiste sinne þou hast wisdome and manhede
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The Lansdowne 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,
1867-1879.

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