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 ...

                                
                                     [6-text p 287] 
                                  
                                  That ȝe shuln han / a feuere terciane
                                
                                  Or an agu / which þat may be ȝoure bane
                                
                                  A day or two / ȝe shuln han degestyues
                                
                                  Of wormes / or ȝe take ȝoure laxatyues
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                                  Of lauriol / centaure / and fumetere
                                
                                  Or elles of ellebor / that groweth there
                                
                                  Of Catapuce / or of gait-Rys beries
                                
                                  Of herbe yue / growyng in oure ȝerd / þere merie is
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                                  Pikke hem right as they growe / and ete hem In
                                
                                  Beth merie housbonde / for ȝoure fader kyn
                                
                                  Dredeth no dreem / I can sey ȝow no more
                                
                                  ¶ Madame quod he / graund mercy of ȝoure lore
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                                  But nathelees / as touchyng daun Catoun
                                
                                  That hath of wysdom / swich a gret renoun
                                
                                  Though þat he bad / no dremes for to drede
                                
                                  By god men moun / in olde bookes rede
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                                  Of many a man / more of auctoritee
                                
                                  Than euere Catoun / was / so moot I the [folio 190a] 
                                
                                  That al the reuers seyn / of his sentence
                                
                                  And han wel founden / by experience
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                                  That dremes ben / significaciouns
                                
                                  As wel of ioye / as tribulaciouns
                                
                                  That folk enduren / in this lyf present
                                
                                  There nedeth make of this / noon argument
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                                  The verray preeue / sheweth it in dede
                                
                                  Oon of the grettest auctour / that men rede [¶ Tullius] 
                                
                                  Seith thus / þat whilom tweye felawes wente
                                
                                  On pilgrimage / in a ful good entente
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                                  And happed so / þat they cam in a toun
                                
                                  where there was swich / a congregacioun
                                
                                  Of peeple / and eke so streyt / of herbergage
                                
                                  That they ne founde / as moche as a cotage
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                                  In which they myght / I-logged be
                                
                                  wherfore they musten / of necessite
                                
                                  As for þat nyght / departen compaignye
                                
                                  And ech of hem gooth / to his hostelrie

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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 508
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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