The Nun's Priest's Tale
Folio 102v
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Xordre wol out this my conclusioun
¶ And right anon / Ministres of that town
Han hent the Cartere / and so soore hym pyned
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And eek the hostiler / so sore engyned
That they biknewe / hir wikkednesse anon
And were an hanged / by the nekke bon
Heere may men sen / þt dremes ben to drede
¶ And certes / in the same book I rede
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Right in the nexte Chapitre / after this
I gabbe nat so haue I ioye or blys
Two men / þt wolde han passed ouer see
For certeyn cause / in to a fer contree
If þt the wynd / ne hadde ben contarie
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That made hem / in a Citee for to tarie
That stood ful myrie / vp on an hauen syde
But on a day / agayn the euen tyde
The wynd gan chaunge / and blew right as hem leste
Iolif and glad / they wenten vn to reste
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And casten hem / ful erly for to sayle
But herkneth / to that o man / fil a gret meruaille
¶ That oon of hem / in slepyng as he lay
Hym mette a wonder dreem / agayn the day
Hym thoughte / a man stood / by his beddes syde
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And hym comanded / þt he sholde abyde
And seyde hym thus / if thow tomorwe wende
Thow shalt be dreynt my tale is at an ende
¶ He wook and tolde his felawe what he mette
And preyde hym / his viage to lette
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As for that day / he preyde hym to byde
¶ His felawe / þt lay / by his beddes syde
Gan for to laughe / and scorned hym ful faste
No dreem quod he / may so myn herte agaste
That I wol lette / for to do my thynges
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I sette nat a straw / by thy dremynges
For sweuenes ben / but vanytees and Iapes
Men dreme alday / of Owles / or of Apes
And of many a maze / ther with al
Men dreme of thyng þt neuere was ne shal
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But sith I see / þt thow wolt here abyde
And thus forslewthen / wilfully thy tyde