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

                                
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                                  Here freendis saw hyre sorwe gan a-slake
                                
                                  And preyede hire / on kneis for godis sake
                                
                                  To comyn & romyn heere in cumpanye [folio 288b] 
                                
                                  A-wey to dryue hire derke fantasye
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                                  And finally sche grauntede that requeste
                                
                                  ffor wel sche thouȝte it was for the beste
                                
                                  Now stood hire castel faste by the see
                                
                                  And oftyn with hire frendis walkede sche
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                                  Hire to disporte on this banke an high
                                
                                  Where that sche manye a schip & barge seigh
                                
                                  Seylynge here cours / where as hem leste goo
                                
                                  But thanne was that a parcel of hire woo
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                                  ffor to hire self ful ofte seyde sche
                                
                                  Is there no schip / of so manye as I se
                                
                                  Wil bryngyn hom myn lord thanne were myn herte
                                
                                  Al warychid of hire bittere peynys smerte
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                                  A nothir tyme there wolde sche sitte & thynke
                                
                                  And caste hire eyen / doun fro the brynke
                                
                                  But whan sche say / the gresely rokis blake
                                
                                  ffor verray feer / so wolde hyre herte quake
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                                  That on hire feet / sche myȝt hire not sustene
                                
                                  Thanne wolde sche sitte / adoun vp on the grene
                                
                                  And pitously / in-to the se by-holde
                                
                                  And seye ryȝt thus / with sorweful sikys colde
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                                  Eterne god / that thour thyn puruyaunce
                                
                                  Ledist the world / be Iuste gouernaunce
                                
                                  In ydil as men seyn / ȝe nothyng make
                                
                                  But lord these grysely / feendly rokkis blake
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                                  That semyn rathere / a foul confusioun
                                
                                  Of werk than ony fayr creacioun
                                
                                  Of which / a parfyt / wys god & stable
                                
                                  Why han ȝe wrouȝt this werk onresonable
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                                  ffor bi this werk. South. North / West & Est
                                
                                  There is I-fostered. no man / ne brid ne best
                                
                                  It doth no good / to myn wit but a-noyith
                                
                                  Se ȝe nat lord how mankynde it distroyeth

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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 334
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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