The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  here dremes shuln nat now / ben tolde for me
                                
                                  fful were here hedes / of fumositee
                                
                                  That causeth dreem / of which there is no charge
                                
                                  They slepe / til that it was / prime large
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                                  The moste parte / but it were Canacee
                                
                                  She was ful mesurable / as wommen be
                                
                                  ffor of hire fader / had she taken leue
                                
                                  To gon to rest / sone after it was eue
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                                  hire list nat appalled / for to be
                                
                                  Ne on the morwe / vnfestliche for to se
                                
                                  And slept hire first sleep / & thanne a-woke
                                
                                  ffor swich a ioie / she in hire hert toke
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                                  Bothe of hire queynt Ryng / & hire Mirour
                                
                                  That twenty tyme / she chaunged hire colour
                                
                                  And in hire sleep / right for the inpression
                                
                                  Of hire Mirour / she had a vision
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                                  wherfore / er that the sonne / gan vp glyde
                                
                                  She cleped vp-on hire Maistres / hire beside
                                
                                  And seide / that hire list for to ryse
                                
                                  Theise olde wommen / that ben gladly wyse
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                                  As is hire Maistresse / answered a-non
                                
                                  And seide Madame / whider wolde ȝe gon
                                
                                  Thus erly / for the folk ben alle in rest
                                
                                  I wil quod she arrisen / for me lest
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                                  No lengere for to slepe / and walke a-boute
                                
                                  hire Maistresse clepeth wommen / a gret route
                                
                                  And vp they risen / wel an ten or twelue
                                
                                  vp riseth fressh Canacee / hire selue
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                                  As rody and bright / as doth the ȝonge Sonne
                                
                                  That in the Ram / is foure degrees vp ronne
                                
                                  Non heighere was he / whan she redy was
                                
                                  And forth she walketh / esily a paas
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                                  Arrayed after the lusty seson / swote
                                
                                  lightly for to pleye / & walke on foote
                                
                                  Nat but with fyue or sexe / of hire meyne [folio 124a] 
                                
                                  And in a trenche / forth in the Park goth she

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 322
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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