The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  Mette þat he sat vpon a tre
                                
                                  which signified he schuld hanged be /
                                
                                  Lo hir andromachia Ectors wif
                                
                                  That day þat Ector schulde lese his lif
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                                  Sche dremed on þe same night byforn
                                
                                  how þat þe lif of Ector schulde be lorn
                                
                                  If þilke day he wente to batayle /
                                
                                  Sche warned him but it might nouȝt auaile /
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                                  He wente forþ to fighte naþeles
                                
                                  But he was slayn anoon of achilles [folio 242b] 
                                
                                  But þilke tale is al to long to telle/
                                
                                  And eek/ it is neigh day I may not duelle
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                                  Schortly I say as for conclusioun
                                
                                  That I schal haue of þis auisioun
                                
                                  Aduersite and I say forþermore
                                
                                  That I ne telle of laxatifs no store
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                                  For þay ben venemous I wot it wel
                                
                                  I hem defye I loue hem neuer a del
                                
                                  Now let vs speke of mirthe and lete al þis
                                
                                  Madame pertilot so haue I blis
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                                  Of o þing god haþ me sent large grace
                                
                                  For whan I see þe beaute of ȝour face
                                
                                  Ȝe ben so scarlet hiew about ȝour eyȝen
                                
                                  hit makith al my drede for to deyȝen
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                                  For als siker as In principio
                                
                                  Mulier est hominis confusio
                                
                                  Madame þe sentence of þis latyn is
                                
                                  womman is mannes ioye and mannes blis
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                                  For when I fiele a-night ȝour softe syde /
                                
                                  Al be it þat I may not on ȝou ryde
                                
                                  For þat ȝour perche is mad so narrow allas /
                                
                                  I am so ful of ioye and solas
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                                  That I defye boþ sweuen and drem
                                
                                  And with þat word he fleigh doun fro þe beem
                                
                                  For it was day and eek his hennes alle
                                
                                  with a chuk. he gan hem for to calle /

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 569
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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