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< 307r Cx1: Folio 307v; The Monk's Tale 639-667 308r > Go to Cx2
Caxton 1, folio307v image
 But haue here in a wayte for euermo  
640Witnes on alle the conquerours stronge  
 THe riche Cresus whilom kyng of lyde  
 Of whiche Cresus Citrins sore hym drad  
 Yet was he canght amyd al his pryde  
 And to brenne men to the fire hym had  
645But suche arayn doun fro the firmament shadde  
 That queynte the fire and made hym to scape  
 But to be waar yet no grace he had  
 Tyl fortune on the galowis made hym gape  
 Whenne he ascaped was he coude nat stynte  
650Forto begynne a new aray agayn  
 He wende wel for that fortune hym sent  
 Suche that he a scapid thurgh the rayn  
 That of his foos he mighte not be slayn  
 And suche a sweuyn vp on a nyght he mette  
655Of whiche he was so proude & eke so feyn  
 That in vengeaunce he all his herte sette  
 Vpon a tre he was as hym thoughte  
 There Iupiter hym wessh bothe hals & syde  
 And Phebus eek a fair towail hym broughte  
660To drye hym with & therwith wext his pryde  
 And to his doughter that stood hym besyde  
 Whiche that he knew in high sentence habounde  
 He bad her telle what it signified  
 And she his dremys right thus expouned  
665The tre quod she the galowis is to mene  
 And Iupiter betokenyth snow and rayn  
 And Phebus with his towel so clene  

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: MO, 640
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 3916
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 2726

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: MO, 645
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 3921
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 2731

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: MO, 650
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 3926
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 2736

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: MO, 655
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 3931
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 2741

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: MO, 660
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 3936
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 2746

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: MO, 665
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 3941
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 2751