The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  An hundreþ þousand bodyes of mankinde
                                
                                  Haue rokkes sleine and al be þei nouht in mynde
                                
                                  Whiche mankinde is so faire parte of þi werke
                                
                                  þat þou it madest ylike to þine handwerke.
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                                  Than semed it ȝe hadde a grete chierte [folio 143b] 
                                
                                  To-ward mankynde bot howe þan maie it be
                                
                                  That ȝe suche menys make it to destroyen
                                
                                  Wyche menys doþ no good but euere annoyen
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                                  .I. woote wele clerkes woln sayn as hem lest
                                
                                  By argumentz þat al þinges is for þe best
                                
                                  They .I. ne can þe causes for soþe knowe
                                
                                  Bot þilke god þat maade winde to blowe
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                                  As kepe my lorde þis conclusion
                                
                                  To clerkis lat .I. al disputasion
                                
                                  Bot wolde god. þat al þe Rokkes blake
                                
                                  Ware sonken in-to hel for his sake
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                                  þes rokkes sleen myne hert for fere
                                
                                  Thus wold sche seine wiþ mony a pitous tere
                                
                                  Hire frendes sawe þat it nas no disporte
                                
                                  To Roumen be þe see bot discomfort
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                                  And schopen for to pleyne sum where elles
                                
                                  Thei leden hire be Reuers and be welles
                                
                                  And eke in oþer place delitables
                                
                                  Thei daunce and plei att chesse and att tables
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                                  So on a dai riht on þe morwe tide
                                
                                  Vnto a Gardeine þat was riht þere beside
                                
                                  In whiche þat þei had maade her ordinance
                                
                                  Of vitaile and of oþer purueance
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                                  Thei gone and pleine hem al þe longe daie
                                
                                  And þis was on þe sext morwe of maie
                                
                                  Whiche had peintede wiþ his soft schoures
                                
                                  This gardine ful of leues and of floures
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                                  And wyþ craft of mannes honde so curiously
                                
                                  Araide had þis gardine trialli
                                
                                  That neuer was þer gardine of suche prise
                                
                                  Bot if it were þe verrei paradise

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 356
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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