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

                                
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                                  Two men / þat wolde han passed ouer see
                                
                                  ffor certeyn cause / in-to a fer contree
                                
                                  If þat the wynd / ne hadde ben contrarie
                                
                                  That made hem / in a Citee for to tarie
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                                  That stood ful myrie / vp on an hauen syde
                                
                                  But on a day / agayn the euen tyde
                                
                                  The wynd gan chaunge / and blew right as hem leste
                                
                                  Iolif and glad / they wenten vn-to reste
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                                  And casten hem / ful erly for to sayle
                                
                                  But herkneth / to that o man / fil a gret meruaille
                                
                                  ¶ That oon of hem / in slepyng as he lay
                                
                                  Hym mette a wonder dreem / agayn the day
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                                  Hym thoughte / a man stood / by his beddes syde
                                
                                  And hym comanded / þat he sholde abyde
                                
                                  And seyde hym thus / if thow tomorwe wende
                                
                                  Thow shalt be dreynt my tale is at an ende
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                                  ¶ He wook / and tolde his felawe what he mette
                                
                                  And preyde hym / his viage to lette
                                
                                  As for that day / he preyde hym to byde
                                
                                  ¶ His felawe / þat lay / by his beddes syde
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                                  Gan for to laughe / and scorned hym ful faste
                                
                                  No dreem quod he / may so myn herte agaste
                                
                                  That I wol lette / for to do my thynges
                                
                                  I sette nat a straw / by thy dremynges
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                                  ffor sweuenes ben / but vanytees and Iapes
                                
                                  Men dreme al day / of Owles / or of Apes
                                
                                  And of many a maze / ther with al
                                
                                  Men dreme of thyng þat neuere was ne shal
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                                  But sith I see / þat thow wolt here abyde
                                
                                  And thus forslewthen / wilfully thy tyde
                                
                                  God woot it reweth me / and haue good day [folio 103a] 
                                
                                  And thus / he took his leue / and wente his way
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                                  But er þat he / hadde half his cours yseyled
                                
                                  Noot I nat why / ne what meschaunce it eyled
                                
                                  But casuelly / the shippes botme rente
                                
                                  And shipe and man / vnder the water wente

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 234
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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