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

                                
                                     [6-text p 462] 
                                  
                                  That at after mete ȝe wiþ ȝour wommen alle
                                
                                  Whan ȝe han ben in chambre out of þis halle
                                
                                  That alle ȝe gon to se þis Damyan
                                
                                  Doþ him disport he is a gentil man
                                  Line 1924 
                                
                                  And telleþ him þat I wil him visite
                                
                                  haue I no þing but rested me a lite
                                
                                  [and spede yow faste / for I wol abide
                                
                                  til that ye slepe / right bi my side] [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14]] 
                                
                                  Now wiþ þat worde he gan to him calle
                                
                                  A squyer þat was marschal of his halle
                                
                                  And tolde him certeyn þinges what he wolde
                                
                                  This freisshe may haþ streyt hir weye holde
                                  Line 1932 
                                
                                  Wiþ alle hire wommen vnto þis damyan
                                
                                  Doun by his beddes syde sat sche þan
                                
                                  Confortyng him as goodly as sche may
                                
                                  This damyan whan he his tyme say
                                  Line 1936 
                                
                                  In secret wise his purs and eek his bille
                                
                                  In which þat he writen hadde his wille
                                
                                  haþ putte in to hire hond wiþouten more
                                
                                  Saue þat he siked wonder sore
                                  Line 1940 
                                
                                  And softely to hire right þus sayde he
                                
                                  mercy and þat ȝe discouereþ nouȝt me
                                
                                  ffor I am ded if þat þis þing be kyd
                                
                                  This purs haþ sche wiþinne hir bosme hid
                                  Line 1944 
                                
                                  And went hir way ȝe gete nomore of me
                                
                                  But vnto Ianure y-comen is sche
                                
                                  And on his beddes syde sitte ful softe
                                
                                  He takeþ hire and kisseþ hire ful ofte [folio 154a] 
                                  Line 1948 
                                
                                  And leyde him doun to slepe and þat anon
                                
                                  Sche feyned hire as þat sche moste gon
                                
                                  þer as ȝe woot þat euery wight mot neede
                                
                                  And when sche of þis bille haþ taken heede
                                  Line 1952 
                                
                                  Sche rent it al to cloutes at þe laste
                                
                                  And in þe pryue softely sche it caste
                                
                                  Who studieþ now but fayre freissche may
                                
                                  And a doun by Ianuer sche lay

                                  Line 1956

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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 340
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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