The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  here dremes schulle not mowe be told for me
                                
                                  fful were here heedes of fumosite
                                
                                  That causeþ drem of which þer is no charge /
                                
                                  They sleepen til it was pryme large /
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                                  The moste part but it were Canace
                                
                                  Sche was ful mesurable as wommen be
                                
                                  ffor of hire fader hadde sche take hir leeue
                                
                                  To go to reste sone after it was eue
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                                  hir list not appalled for to be
                                
                                  ffor on þe morwe vnfestlich for to see /
                                
                                  And slepte hir ferste sleep and awok [folio 95b] 
                                
                                  ffor swich a ioye sche in hir herte took
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                                  Boþe of hire queynte ryng and hire mirour
                                
                                  That twenty tyme sche chaungeth hire colour
                                
                                  And in hire sleep right for impression
                                
                                  Of hire mirour sche hadde a vision
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                                  Wherfore ar þat þe sonne vp gan glyde
                                
                                  Sche cleped vp on hire maystresse bysyde
                                
                                  And seyde þat hir liste for to arise
                                
                                  Thise olde wommen þat ben gladly wyse
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                                  As is hire maystresse answerde anon
                                
                                  And seyde ma dame whider wolde ye gon
                                
                                  Thus erely for folk ben alle in reste
                                
                                  I wole quod sche arise for me leste /
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                                  No lengere sleepen but walken aboute
                                
                                  hire maistresse clepeþ wommen a gret route /
                                
                                  And vp þey risen wel ten or twelue
                                
                                  vp riseþ freisshe Canace hir selue
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                                  As rody as bright as þey þe yonge sonne
                                
                                  That in þe Ram. is ten degrees vpronne
                                
                                  Non hiher was he whan sche redy was
                                
                                  And forth sche walkede eesyly a pas
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                                  Arrayed after þe lusty seson soote
                                
                                  lightly for to pleye and walke on foote
                                
                                  Nat but .v. or .vj. of hire meyne
                                
                                  And in a trench fer in þe park goþ sche

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 204
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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