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

                                
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                                  In siht of oþere schippes hem beside
                                
                                  þat wiþ him sailed att þe same tide
                                
                                  And þerfore he seide pertelote so dere
                                
                                  Bu suche ensamples olde maist þou lere
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                                  þat noman schold bue to recheles
                                
                                  Of dremes for .I. saie þe doubteles
                                
                                  þat mony a dreme ful sore is for to drede
                                
                                  ¶ Lo in þe lif of seint kenelme .I. rede
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                                  þat was kenulphes son þe noble kinge
                                
                                  Of Mercenrike howe Kenelme mette a þinge
                                
                                  A litel ar he was murdred on a daie
                                
                                  His murdre in his avisione he seyhe
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                                  His norice him expounded euery dele
                                
                                  His sweuen & bad him for to kep him wele
                                
                                  For traison bot he was .vij. ȝere olde
                                
                                  And þere-fore litel tale haþe he tolde
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                                  Of ony dreme so holy was myn herte
                                
                                  Be god .I. hadde leuer þan my scherte
                                
                                  þat ȝe hadde his legende as haue .I.
                                
                                  Dame pertelote .I. saie ȝow trewlye
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                                  Macrobeus þat write þe avisioun
                                
                                  In Aff[r]ike of þe worþe Cyprioun
                                
                                  Affermeþ dremes & seiþ þat þere biene
                                
                                  Warneynge of þinges þat men after seen · [folio 221b] 
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                                  And forþermore .I. praie ȝowe lokeþ wele
                                
                                  The olde testament of Danyele
                                
                                  If he helde dremes of any vanyte
                                
                                  Rede eke of Ioseph & þan schal ȝe see
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                                  Wheþer dremes bien sumtyme .I. seye nouht all
                                
                                  Warneynge of þinges þat schal after fall
                                
                                  ¶ Loke of Egipte þe kinge dan Pharaho
                                
                                  His Baker & his Boteler also
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                                  Where þei ne felte none effect in dremes
                                
                                  Who so wolle se[r]che þe actes of sundre Realmes
                                
                                  Maie rede of dremes mony a worder þinge
                                
                                  Loo cresus whiche þat was of Lidde kinge

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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 580
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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