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

                                
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                                  Sweuenys engenderyn / of repleciounnys
                                
                                  And ofte of fume & of complexiounys
                                
                                  Whanne humouris been to haboundaunt in a wight
                                
                                  Sertis this drem whiche ȝe han met to nyght
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                                  Comyth of the greete superfluite
                                
                                  Of ȝoure reede colera parde
                                
                                  Whiche causyn folk to dredyn in here dremys
                                
                                  Of arwis & of fyr with rede lemys
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                                  Of rede bestis that they wele hym byte
                                
                                  Of contek & of whelpis greete & lite
                                
                                  Righ as the humour of malencolye
                                
                                  Causith ful manye a man in slep to crye
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                                  ffor feer of blake beris / or of bolys blake [folio 366a] 
                                
                                  Or ellis blake deuyllis wole hem take
                                
                                  Of othere humouris coude I telle also
                                
                                  That werkyn manye a man in sleep ful wo
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                                  But I wele passe as lyghtely as I can
                                
                                  To Catoun which that was so wis a man
                                
                                  Seyde he nat thus ne do no fors of dremys [Sompnia ne cures] 
                                
                                  Now sire quod sche whan we flye from the bemys
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                                  ffor godis loue tak sum laxatyf
                                
                                  Vp peril of myn soule & of myn lyf
                                
                                  I conseyle ȝow the beste I wele nat lye
                                
                                  That bothe of colere & of malencolye
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                                  ȝe porge ȝow & for ȝe schal nat tarye
                                
                                  Thow in this toun is non apotecarye
                                
                                  I schal myn self to erbis techyn ȝow
                                
                                  That schul been for ȝoure hele & for ȝoure prow
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                                  And in oure ȝerd two erbis schal I fynde
                                
                                  The whiche han of here propirte by kynde
                                
                                  To porge ȝow be-nethe & ek a-bove
                                
                                  ffor-ȝet nat this for godis owene lowe
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                                  ȝe been ful colerik of complexioun
                                
                                  Ware the sunne in his ascencioun
                                
                                  Ne fynde ȝow nat replet / of humouris hoote
                                
                                  ffor yef he do / I dar leye a grote

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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 504
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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