The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  Thanne may men by þis ordere wel diserne
                                
                                  That tylke moeuere stylle & sterne
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                                  Wel may men knowe but it be a fol
                                
                                  That euery part dryuyth from hese hol
                                
                                  ffor nature hath takyn hese begynnyng
                                
                                  Of no party or of a cantel of a þyng
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                                  But of a þyng þat parfyt is & stable
                                
                                  Dessendynge so til it be corumpable
                                
                                  And þerfore for hese wise puruyaunce
                                
                                  He hath so wel be-set hese ordenaunce
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                                  That specyfie of þyngis & progressiounnys
                                
                                  Shul endure be succesciounnys
                                
                                  And not eterne with-outyn ony lye
                                
                                  This mayst þou vndyrstondyn & sen at eye
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                                  lo þe ok that hath so long a norichynge [folio 173b]  [XII. 7.] 
                                
                                  ffrom the tyme þat it ferst begynnyth to sprynge
                                
                                  And hat so long a lyf as we may se
                                
                                  Ȝit at the laste wastyd is the tre
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                                  Considerith ek how that the harde ston
                                
                                  Vndir oure fet on whiche we trede & gon
                                
                                  Ȝit wastith it as it lyth be the weye
                                
                                  The brode reuyr sumtyme waxeth dreye
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                                  The grete tounnys se we wane & wende
                                
                                  Than may I say þat al þis thyng hath ende
                                
                                  Of man & woman se we we wel alsoo [XII. 8.] 
                                
                                  That nedyth in on of þese termys too
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                                  This is to seyne in ȝouthe or ellys age
                                
                                  He mote be ded the kyng as schal a page
                                
                                  Some in his bed some in the depe se [XII. 10.] 
                                
                                  Some in the large feld as men may se
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                                  There helpith not al goth that ilke weye
                                
                                  Thanne may I seyn al þis þyng mote nedis deye
                                
                                  What makyth þis but Iupiter þe kyng
                                
                                  That is prynce & cause of alle thyng
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                                  Conuertynge al vn-to hese propere welle
                                
                                  ffrom wiche it is deryvit soth to telle

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 86
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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