The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  Then men may wele by this ordre discerne
                                
                                  That thilke mover stable ys and eterne
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                                  Wele may men knowe but it be a fole
                                
                                  That euery part is dareined from his hole
                                
                                  ffor nature hath nat taken his begynnyng
                                
                                  Of no party or of cantell or of a thing
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                                  But of a thing that parfite is and stable
                                
                                  Descendyng so tyll it be corumpable
                                
                                  And therfore for his wyse purveyaunce
                                
                                  He hath so wele byset his ordinaunce
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                                  That spices of thinges and progressions
                                
                                  Sholden enduren by successions
                                
                                  And noght eterne withouten ony lye
                                
                                  This maist þou vndrestonde and seyn at eye [[Eg. ends]] 
                                  Line 3016 
                                
                                  Lo the Oke / that hath / so longe a norisshyng [Dd. begins, leaf 38] 
                                
                                  ffro the tyme / þat it first / bygynneth to spryng [¶ Nota bene] 
                                
                                  And hath so longe a lyf / as ȝe may se
                                
                                  Ȝet at the last / wasted is the tree
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                                  Considereth eke / how that the harde ston
                                
                                  Vnder oure fote / on which we ride and gon
                                
                                  It wasteth / as it lith / by the weye
                                
                                  The brode ryuer / somtyme waxeth drye
                                  Line 3024 
                                
                                  The grete townes / se we wane and wend
                                
                                  Than se ȝe / þat al this thyng / hath an end
                                
                                  Of man and womman / se we wel also
                                
                                  That nedes in on / of þeise termes two
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                                  This is to seyn / in ȝouthe or ellis in age
                                
                                  he mot be ded / the kyng / as shal a page
                                
                                  Som in his bed / som in the depe see
                                
                                  Som in the large feld / as ȝe moun se
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                                  There helpeth nouȝt / alle gon þat ilke wey
                                
                                  Than may I seyn / that al this thyng mot dey
                                
                                  ¶ . What makith this / but Iubiter the kyng
                                
                                  That is prince and cause / of alle thyng
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                                  Conuertyng alle / vn-to his propre wylle
                                
                                  ffrom which it is derreyned / soth to telle

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 86
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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