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

                                
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                                  That ȝe schuln haue a feuer terciane
                                
                                  Or an agu þat may ben ȝoure bane
                                
                                  A day or tuo ȝe schuln haue digestyues
                                
                                  Of wormes er ȝe take ȝoure laxatyues
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                                  Of laureole Centure and of fumytere
                                
                                  Or ellis of Ellebore þat groweþ þere
                                
                                  Of Catapuce or of gaytres buryes
                                
                                  Of herbe yue growyng in oure ȝerde þer mery is
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                                  Pek hem vp right as þey growe and et hem In [folio 249b] 
                                
                                  Be mery housbande for ȝoure fadres kyn
                                
                                  Dredeþ no dreem I can say ȝou no more
                                
                                  Ma dame quod he gramercy of ȝoure lore
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                                  But naþeles as touching dann Catoun
                                
                                  That haþ of wisdom such a gret renoun
                                
                                  By god men may in olde bookes reede
                                
                                  Oon of þe grettest auctour out of drede
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                                  Of many a man more of auctorite
                                
                                  þenne euer Caton was so mote I þe
                                
                                  That alle þe reuers sein of his sentence
                                
                                  And han wel founden by experience
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                                  þat dreemes ben significacions
                                
                                  As wel of ioye as of tribulacions
                                
                                  þat folk enduren in þis lyf present
                                
                                  Ther needeþ nouȝt to make of þis non argument
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                                  The verray preef scheweþ it in dede
                                
                                  On of þe grettest auctour þat men rede
                                
                                  Saiþ þus þat whilom tuo felawes went
                                
                                  On pylgrimage in a ful good entent
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                                  And happed so þey camen in-to a toun
                                
                                  Wher as þer was such congregacion
                                
                                  Of poeple and eek of streight herburgage
                                
                                  That þey ne fand as moche as a cotage /
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                                  In which þey boþe might y-logged be
                                
                                  Wherfore þey mosten of necessite
                                
                                  As for þat night departe of companye
                                
                                  And vche of hem goþ vnto his ostelrye

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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 574
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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