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

                                
                                     [6-text p 461] 
                                  
                                  þe more þat at noon was þilke day
                                
                                  That Ianuare haþ wedded þat freissche may
                                
                                  In tuo of Taure was in þe Cancre Gliden
                                
                                  So longe haþ sche in hire chambre abyden
                                  Line 1888 
                                
                                  As costume is vnto þise noblis alle
                                
                                  A bryde schal nouȝt eten in þe halle
                                
                                  Til dayes foure oþer þre dayes atte leste
                                
                                  y-passed ben þen lat hire go to feste
                                  Line 1892 
                                
                                  þe ferþe day complet froo noon to noon
                                
                                  Whan þat þe hihe masse was y-doon
                                
                                  In halle sitt þis Ianuare and may
                                
                                  As freissh as is þe brighte someres day
                                  Line 1896 
                                
                                  And so bifelle how þat þis goode man
                                
                                  Remembreþ him vpon þis damyan
                                
                                  And sayde seinte mary how may þis be
                                
                                  That Damyan entendiþ nouȝt to me
                                  Line 1900 
                                
                                  Is he ay sike or how may þis betyde
                                
                                  his squyers whiche þat stooden him besyde
                                
                                  Excusynge him be cause of his seknesse
                                
                                  Which letted him to don his busynesse
                                  Line 1904 
                                
                                  Non oþer cause mighte make him care
                                
                                  That me forþinkeþ quod þis Ianuare
                                
                                  he is a gentil squyer by my trouþe /
                                
                                  If þat he deyde it were harm and rouþe
                                  Line 1908 
                                
                                  he is as wys discrete and secre
                                
                                  As eny man I wot of his degre [folio 153b] 
                                
                                  And þerto manly and eek seruisable
                                
                                  And for to ben a þrifty man right able
                                  Line 1912 
                                
                                  But after mete as sone as euer I may
                                
                                  I wole my self visite him and eek may
                                
                                  To don him al þe confort þat I can
                                
                                  And for þat word him blessed euery man
                                  Line 1916 
                                
                                  That of his bounte and of his gentilnesse
                                
                                  He wolde so conforten him in his siknesse
                                
                                  His squyer for it was a gentil dede
                                
                                  Dame quod he þis Ianuar take good hede

                                  Line 1920

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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 339
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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