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

                                
                                     [6-text p 505] 
                                  
                                  An hunderede thousent / bodyis of mankynde
                                
                                  Han rolkis slayn / al ben they nat in mynde
                                
                                  Whiche mankynd is / so fayr a part of thyn werk
                                
                                  That þou it madist / lyk to thyn owene merk
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                                  Thanne semythit ȝe hadde a gret chiertee [folio 289a] 
                                
                                  Toward [[o corrected]]  mankynde but how thanne may it be
                                
                                  That ȝe sweche meenys make it to distroyen
                                
                                  Whiche menys doon no good but euere a-noyen
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                                  I wot wel clerkys wele seye as hem leste [[este corrected]] 
                                
                                  By argumentis that al is for the beste
                                
                                  Thow I ne can the causis not I-knowe
                                
                                  But that god / that made wynd to blowe
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                                  As keepe myn lord / this is myn conclusioun
                                
                                  To clerkis leete I al discripcioun
                                
                                  But wolde god that alle these rokkis blake
                                
                                  Were sunkyn in-to helle for his sake
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                                  These rokkis sleen myn herte for the fere
                                
                                  Thus seyde sche with manye a pitous teere
                                
                                  Hire fryndys saw that it was no disport
                                
                                  To romyn by the se but disconfort
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                                  And schopyn for to pleyen sum wher ellis
                                
                                  They leddyn hire by reueris & by wellis
                                
                                  And ek in othere places delectables
                                
                                  Th[e]y dauncedyn the[y] pleyedyn at ches & tablys
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                                  So on a day ryȝt in the morwetide
                                
                                  Vn-tyl a gardyn that was ther byside
                                
                                  In whiche they haddyn mad here ordenaunce
                                
                                  Of vitaylis & of othere puruyaunce
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                                  They goon & pleye hem al the longe day
                                
                                  And this was on the sexte morwe of may
                                
                                  Whiche may hadde peyntid with [[h later]]  hise softe schourys
                                
                                  This gardyn ful of leuys & of flouris
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                                  And craft of manys hand so curiously
                                
                                  Arayed hadde this gardyn trewely
                                
                                  That neuere was thare [[first that]]  gardy of swich a prys
                                
                                  But it hadde been the verray paradys

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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 335
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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