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

                                
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                                  Mette he nat that he sat vp-on a tree
                                
                                  Which signified / he sholde anhanged bee
                                
                                  ¶ Lo heere Adromacha / Ectores wyf
                                
                                  That day / that Ector / sholde lese his lyf
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                                  She dremed / on the same nyght biforn
                                
                                  How þat the lyf of Ector / sholde be lorne
                                
                                  If thilke day / he wente in-to bataille
                                
                                  She warned hym / but it myghte nat auaille
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                                  He wente / for to fighte natheles
                                
                                  But he was slayn anon of Achilles
                                
                                  But thilke tale is al to longe for to telle
                                
                                  And eek it is ny day / I may nat dwelle
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                                  Shortly I seye / as for conclusion
                                
                                  That I shal han / of this Avision
                                
                                  Aduersitee /. and I seye forthermoor [folio 186b] 
                                
                                  That I ne telle / of laxatyues no stoor
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                                  ffor they been venymes / I woot it weel
                                
                                  I hem diffye / I loue hem neuer a deel
                                
                                  ¶ Now let vs speke of myrthe / and stynte al this
                                
                                  Madame Pertelote / so haue I blis
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                                  Of o thyng god hath sent me large grace
                                
                                  ffor whan I se / the beautee of youre face
                                
                                  Ye been so scarlet reed / aboute youre eyen
                                
                                  It maketh / al my drede for to dyen
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                                  ffor al so siker / as In principio
                                
                                  Mulier est hominis confusio
                                
                                  ¶ Madame / the sentence / of this latyn is
                                
                                  Womman is mannes Ioye / and al his blis
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                                  ffor whan I feele a nyght your softe syde
                                
                                  Al be it that I may nat on yow ryde
                                
                                  ffor þat oure perche / is maad so narwe allas
                                
                                  I am so ful of ioye / and of solas
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                                  That I diffye / bothe sweuene and dreem
                                
                                  And with that word / he fly doun fro the beem
                                
                                  ffor it was day / and eke hise hennes alle
                                
                                  And with a chuk / he gan hem for to calle

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 515
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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