The Petworth ms. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.

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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,

1868-1879.

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"The Petworth ms. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ASH2689.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.

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¶ De Adam./

                  
                    Loo Adam in þe feelde of Damyssene
                  
                    Wiþ goddes oune fyngers wrouȝt was he
                  
                    And nouȝt bygeten of mannes sperme vnclene
                  
                    And wolt al Paradys sauyng oon tree
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                    Had neuere worldly man so hie degre
                  
                    As Adam vnto he wyþ nyce gouernance
                  
                    Was dryue out of his high prosperite
                  
                    To laboure and to helle and to meschance

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