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

Ther euery wight saue he / maister and knaue Was with the leon frete / er he asterte No wight but god / that he bar in his herte Line 476
God liste to shewe / his wonderful myracle In hire / for we sholde seen / his myghty werkis Crist which that is / to euery harm triacle By certeine meenes ofte / as knowen clerkis Line 480 Dooth thyng for certein ende / that ful derk is To mannes wit/. that for oure ignorance Ne konne noght knowe / his prudent purueiance Line 483
¶ Now sith she was nat / at the feeste yslawe Who kepte hire / fro the drenchyng / in the see? Who kepte Ionas / in the fisshes mawe Til he / was spouted vp at Nynyuee? Line 487 Wel may men knowe / it was no wight but he That kepte peple Ebrayk from hir drenchynge With drye feet thurgh out the see passynge Line 490
¶ Who bad the foure spirites of tempest [folio 59a] That power han / tanoyen lond and see Bothe North and South / and also west and Est Anoyeth neither / see / ne land ne tree Line 494 Soothly / the Comandour of that was he That fro the tempest / ay this womman kepte As wel / when she wook as whan she slepte Line 497
¶ Where myghte this womman / mete and drynke haue? Thre yeer and moore / how lasteth hire vitaille? Who fedde / the Egypcien Marie in the Caue? Or in desert? no wight but crist / sanz faille Line 501 ffyue thousand folk / it was as greet meruaille With loues fyue / and fisshes two to feede God sente his foyson / at hir grete neede Line 504
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The Ellesmere 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,
1868-1879.

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