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

                                
                                     [6-text p 290] 
                                  
                                  [Two men that wold. han passed the see [MS Reg. 17 D xv folio 278a] ]
                                
                                  For certeyne cause into a fer Contre
                                
                                  If þat þe wynde ne hadde bue contrarie
                                
                                  þat maade hem in a Cite for to tarye
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                                  þat stode ful merie vpon an hauen side
                                
                                  Bot on a daie aȝeines þe euen tide
                                
                                  The wynde gan chaunge & blew as him lest
                                
                                  Iolif & gladde þei wenten vnto rest
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                                  And kesten hem ful erly vnto seile
                                
                                  Bot herken þat o man fel in grete pereile
                                
                                  The tone of hem in slepeinge as he leye
                                
                                  Him mett a wonder dreme aȝeines þe daye
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                                  Him þouht a man stode be his side
                                
                                  And him commanded þat he schold abide
                                
                                  And seid him þus if þou to morne wende
                                
                                  þou schalt be dreynte my tale is att an ende
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                                  He awoke & told his felawes what he mette.
                                
                                  And praide him his viage for to lete [folio 221a] 
                                
                                  As for þat daie he praide him to abide
                                
                                  His felawe þat laye be his beddes side
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                                  Gan for to lauhe & scorned him ful fast
                                
                                  No dreme quod he maie myne herte agaste
                                
                                  þat .I. wil lette for to do my þinges
                                
                                  .I. sett nouht a strawe be dremeinges
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                                  For swevens bien bot vanytees & Iapes
                                
                                  Menne dreme alweie of owles & of apes
                                
                                  And of mony a mase þere wiþ all
                                
                                  Men dremen of þinge þat neuer was ne schall
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                                  Bott seþen .I. see þat þou wilte here abide
                                
                                  And þus for-slewþen willfully þe tide
                                
                                  God wote it reweþ me & haue good daie
                                
                                  And þus he toke his leue & went his waie
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                                  And er þat he hadde halfe his cours ysailed
                                
                                  .I. note whie ne whatt meschaunce it eylede
                                
                                  Bot Casuelly þe schip bothome to-rentte
                                
                                  And schip & man vnder þe water wente

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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 579
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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