“Here may ye see that dreamës be to dread. And certes in the samë book I read, Right in the nextë chapter after this (I gabbë 4320 not, so have I joy and bliss), Two men that would have passed over sea, For certain cause, into a far countrý, If that the wind not haddë been contráry, That made them in a city for to tarry, That stood full merry upon an haven side; But on a day, against the eventide, The wind gan change, and blew right as them lest. 4321 Jolly and glad they wentë to their rest, And castë 4322 them full early for to sail. But to the one man fell a great marvail That one of them, in sleeping as he lay, He mette 4323 a wondrous dream, against the day: He thought a man stood by his beddë’s side,

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