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

                                
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                                  An hundred thousand bodies / of mankynde
                                
                                  Han Rokkes slayn / al be they nat in mynd
                                
                                  Which mankynde / is so fair part of thy werk
                                
                                  That thow it madest lyk to thyn owen merk
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                                  Thanne semed it ye hadde a greet chiertee [folio 156a] 
                                
                                  Toward mankynde / but how thanne may it be
                                
                                  That ye swiche menes make / it to destroyen
                                
                                  Whiche menes do no good / but euere anoyen
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                                  I woot wel / clerkes wol seyn as hem leste
                                
                                  By argumentz / that al is for the beste
                                
                                  Thogh I ne kan / the causes nat yknowe
                                
                                  But thilke god / þat made wynd to blowe
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                                  As kepe my lord / this my conclusion
                                
                                  To clerkes / lete I al disputison
                                
                                  But wolde god / þat alle thise Rokkes blake
                                
                                  Were sonken in to helle / for his sake
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                                  Thise Rokkes sleen myn herte / for the feere
                                
                                  Thus wolde she seyn / with many a pitous teere
                                
                                  ¶ Hir freendes sawe / that it was no disport
                                
                                  To romen by the See / but disconfort
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                                  And shopen / for to pleyen / som wher ellys
                                
                                  They leden hire / by Ryuers and by wellys
                                
                                  And eek in othere places delitables
                                
                                  They dauncen / and they pleyen at Ches & tables
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                                  ¶ So on a day / right in the morwe tyde
                                
                                  Vn to a gardyn / that was ther bisyde
                                
                                  In which / that they hadde maad hir ordinance
                                
                                  Of vitaille / and of oother purueiance
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                                  They goon and pleye hem / al the longe day
                                
                                  And this was / on the sixte morwe of May
                                
                                  Which may hadde peynted / with his softe shoures
                                
                                  This gardyn / ful of leues / and of floures
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                                  And craft of mannes hond / so curiously
                                
                                  Arrayed hadde / this gardyn trewely
                                
                                  That neuere was ther gardyn / of swich prys
                                
                                  But if it were / the verray Paradys

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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 357
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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