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 ...

                                
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                                  ¶ Two men / þat wolde han passed ouer the see
                                
                                  ffor certeyn cause / in-to fer contree
                                
                                  If þat the wynd / ne had be contrarie
                                
                                  That made hem in a Citee / for to tarie
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                                  That stood ful merye / vp-oon an hauene syde
                                
                                  But on a day / a-geyn the Eue tyde
                                
                                  The wynd gan chaunge / & blew right as hem leste
                                
                                  Iolyf and glad / they went vn-to here reste
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                                  And casten hem ful erly / for to seyle
                                
                                  But to that oo man / fel in gret merveille
                                
                                  ¶ That oon of hem / in slepynge as he lay
                                
                                  him mette a wonder dreem / a-geyn the day
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                                  him þought a man stood / by his beddes syde
                                
                                  And him comaunded / that he shulde a-byde
                                
                                  And seide him thus / if þou to-morwe wende
                                
                                  Thow shalt be dreynt / my tale is at an ende
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                                  he wook & told his felawe / what he mette
                                
                                  And preyed him / his viage to lette
                                
                                  As for that day / he preyed him to abyde
                                
                                  his felawe that lay / by his beddes syde
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                                  Gan for to laughe / & skorned him ful faste
                                
                                  No dreem quod he / may so myn herte agaste
                                
                                  That I wol lette / for to do myne thynges
                                
                                  I sette nat a strawe / by my dremynges
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                                  ffor sweuenes ben but vanitees / & iapes
                                
                                  Men dreme alday / of Oules & of Apes
                                
                                  And eke of many a mase / ther-with-al
                                
                                  Men dreme of thyng / þat neuere was ne shal
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                                  But sithe I se / þat þou wolt heere abide
                                
                                  And thus forsleuthen / wilfully thy tyde
                                
                                  God woot it reweth me / and haue good day
                                
                                  And thus he took his leue / & went his way
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                                  But or that he / had half his cours I-seyled
                                
                                  Noot I nat why / ne what meschaunce it eyled
                                
                                  But casuely / the shippes bottum rente
                                
                                  And ship & man / vnder the water wente

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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 511
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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