The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 456] 
                                  
                                  In wisdom and trouþe of mariage
                                
                                  And sayde his orisouns as is his vsage
                                
                                  And crouched hem and bad god schulde hem blesse
                                
                                  And made al siker ynough with holynesse /
                                  Line 1708 
                                
                                  þus ben þey weddid with solempnite
                                
                                  And atte feste sitteþ he and sche
                                
                                  Wiþ oþer worþy folk vpon þe deys
                                
                                  Al ful of ioye and blisse is þe paleys
                                  Line 1712 
                                
                                  And ful of instrumentz and of vitayle
                                
                                  þe moste deyntevous of alle ytayle
                                
                                  Byforn hem of instrumentz which a soun
                                
                                  That Orpheus ne of Phebes ampheoun
                                  Line 1716 
                                
                                  Ne maden neuer such a melodye
                                
                                  And at euery cours cam lowde menstralcie
                                
                                  þat neuer Ioab trumped for to heere /
                                
                                  Neiþer Theodomas ȝit half so cleere
                                  Line 1720 
                                
                                  And Thebes whan þe cite was in doute /
                                
                                  Bacus þe wyn hem schenkeþ al aboute
                                
                                  And venus lawheþ vpon euery wight
                                
                                  ffor Ianuarye was bycome here knight
                                  Line 1724 
                                
                                  And wolde boþe assayen his corage
                                
                                  In liberte and eek in mariage
                                
                                  And wiþ hir fyr brond wiþ hire hand aboute
                                
                                  Daunsiþ byforn þe bryde al aboute
                                  Line 1728 
                                
                                  And certeynly I dar wel seyn riȝt þis
                                
                                  Emyneus þat god of weddyng is [folio 151a] 
                                
                                  Sawe neuer in his lijf so mery a wedded man
                                
                                  halde þou þy pes þou poete Marcean
                                  Line 1732 
                                
                                  þat writest vs þat ilke weddyng mery
                                
                                  Of hire phylologie and of mercurye
                                
                                  And of þe sanges þat þe muses song
                                
                                  So smale as eek þin penne and eek þy tong
                                  Line 1736 
                                
                                  ffor to discryuen of þis mariage
                                
                                  When tendre ȝouþe haþ wedded stowpyng age
                                
                                  þer is such myrþe þat it may nouȝt be write
                                
                                  Assayeþ it ȝou self þen may ȝe wite /

                                  Line 1740

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 334
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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