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That ye shul haue / a ffeuere terciane
Or an Agu / that may be youre bane
A day or two / ye shul haue digestyues [folio 184b]
Of wormes / er ye take youre laxatyues
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Of lawriol / Centaure / and ffumetere
Or elles of Ellebor / that groweth there
Of katapuce / or of Gaitrys beryis
Of herbe yue growyng in oure yeerd ther mery is
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Pekke hem vp right as they growe and ete hem yn
Be myrie housbonde / for youre fader kyn
Dredeth no dreem / I kan sey yow namoore
Madame quod he / graunt mercy of youre loore
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But nathelees / as touchyng Daun Catoun
That hath of wysdom / swich a greet renoun
Though that he bad / no dremes for to drede
By god / men may / in olde bookes rede
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Of many a man / moore of Auctorite
Than euere Caton was / so moot I thee
That al the reuers seyn / of this sentence
And han wel founden by experience
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That dremes / been significacions
As wel of Ioye / as of tribulacions
That folk enduren / in this lif present
Ther nedeth / make of this noon Argument
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The verray preeue / sheweth it in dede
¶ Oon / of the gretteste Auctour / þat men rede [¶ Nota de Sompnio]
Seith thus / þat whilom two felawes wente
On pilgrimage / in a ful good entente
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And happed so / they coomen in a toun
Wher as ther was / swich congregacioun
Of peple / and eek so streit of herbergage
That they ne founde / as muche as o cotage
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In which they bothe / myghte logged bee
Wherfore / they mosten of necessitee
As for that nyght departen compaignye
And ech of hem / gooth to his hostelrye
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