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 ...

                                
                                  An hundred thouȝsand bodyes / of man-kynde
                                
                                  han Rokkes slayn / al be they nought in mynde
                                
                                  Which mankynde is so faire / a part of thy werke
                                
                                  That thow it madest / like to thyn owen merke
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                                  Thanne semed it / ȝe had a gret chierte
                                
                                  Toward mankynde / but how thanne may it be
                                
                                  That ȝe swich menes make / it to destroyen
                                
                                  Which menes do no good / but euere annoyen
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                                  I wot wel / clerkes wiln seyn as hem lest
                                
                                  By argumenteȝ that al is for the best [folio 130b] 
                                
                                  Though I ne can the causes / nought I-knowe
                                
                                  But thilke god / that made wynd to blowe
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                                  As kepe my lord / this is myn conclusion
                                
                                  To clerkes lete I / al disputisioun
                                
                                  But wolde god / that alle theise Rokkes blake
                                
                                  Were sonken in-to helle / for his sake
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                                  Theise Rokkes slen myn herte / for the fere
                                
                                  Thus she seide / with many a pytous tere
                                
                                  hire frendes saugh / that it was no disport
                                
                                  To romen by the See / but discomfort
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                                  And shopen for to pleyen / som-wher elles
                                
                                  They leddyn hire by Ryuers / and by welles
                                
                                  And eke in othere places / delitables
                                
                                  They dauncen / and they pleyen at chesse / and tables
                                
                                  ¶ So on a day / right in the morwe tyde
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                                  vn-to a gardeyn / that was there beside
                                
                                  In which they had mad / here ordinaunce
                                
                                  Of vitaille / and of other purueaunce
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                                  They gon and pleye hem / al the longe day
                                
                                  And this was on the sexte morwe / of May
                                
                                  Which May had peynted / with his softe shoures
                                
                                  This gardeyn ful of leues / and of floures
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                                  And craft of mannys hand / so curiously
                                
                                  Arrayed had this gardeyn / trewely
                                
                                  That neuere was there gardyn / of swich a prys
                                
                                  But if it were / the verray Paradys

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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 338
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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