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

                                
                                  ffarwel myn lyf myn lust & myn gladnesse
                                
                                  Allas whi pleyne men so in comune
                                
                                  On puruyaunce of god or of fortune
                                  Line 1252 
                                
                                  That ȝeuyth hem ful ofte in manye a gyse [folio 149a] 
                                
                                  Wel betyr þan þey can hem self deuyse
                                
                                  Sum man desiryth for to haue richesse
                                
                                  That is cause of hese mordere or gret seknesse
                                  Line 1256 
                                
                                  And some wolde out of hese presoun fayn
                                
                                  That in hese hous is of hese meyne slayn
                                
                                  Infynyte harmys ben in this matere
                                
                                  We wote not what þyng þat we preyen here
                                  Line 1260 
                                
                                  We farn as he þat dronke is as a mous
                                
                                  A dronke man wot wel that he hath an hous
                                
                                  But he not whiche the ryȝte weye is þedyr
                                
                                  And to a dronke man the weye is sledyr
                                  Line 1264 
                                
                                  And sertys in þis world so faryn we
                                
                                  We sekyn faste aftyr felycite
                                
                                  But we gon wrong oftyn trewely
                                
                                  Thus may we seyn alle & namely I
                                  Line 1268 
                                
                                  That wende & hadde a gret opynyoun
                                
                                  That I myȝte skapyn from prysoun
                                
                                  Thanne hadde I be in ioye & parfyt hele
                                
                                  There now I am exilyd from myn wele
                                  Line 1272 
                                
                                  Syn that I may not sen ȝow emalye [III. 75.] 
                                
                                  I nam but ded þere nys non oþer weye
                                
                                  Vp on that oþer syde palamon
                                
                                  Whan that he woste Arcyte was a-gon
                                  Line 1276 
                                
                                  Swich sorwe he makyth that þe grete tour
                                
                                  Resounnyth of hese ȝoulyng & clamour
                                
                                  The pure feterys of hese schenys grete
                                
                                  Weryn of hese bittere salte terys wete
                                  Line 1280 
                                
                                  Allas quod he arcita cosyn myn
                                
                                  Of al oure stryf god wot the freut is þyn
                                
                                  Thow walkyst now in thebes at þyn large
                                
                                  And of myn wo þou ȝeuyst lityl charge
                                  Line 1284 
                                
                                  Thu mayst sen þou hast wisdom & manhede

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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 37
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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