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

                                
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                                  And hem reioysen in here cruel pryde
                                
                                  And recched nouȝt to ben an homicide
                                
                                  ¶ This gentil may fulfild of alle pite
                                
                                  Right so of hire hond a lettre made sche
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                                  In which sche graunteþ him of hire verray grace
                                
                                  þer lackeþ nouȝt oonly but day and space
                                
                                  Wher þat sche mighte to his lust suffise
                                
                                  ffor it schal be right as he wol deuyse
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                                  And whan sche saugh hire tyme vpon a day
                                
                                  To visite þis damyan goþ faire may
                                
                                  And sotilly þis lettre doun sche þriste
                                
                                  vnder his pilwe rede iff him liste
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                                  Sche takeþ him by þe hond and harde him twiste
                                
                                  So secrely þat no wight hit wiste
                                
                                  And bad him be al hool and forþ sche wente
                                
                                  To Ianuare whan þat he for hire sente
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                                  vp ryseþ Damyan þe nexte morwe
                                
                                  Al passed was his siknesse and his sorwe
                                
                                  he kembiþ him and proyneþ him and pikeþ
                                
                                  he doþ al þat þis lady lust and likeþ
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                                  And ek to Ianuare he goþ as lowe
                                
                                  As euer did a dogge for þe bowe
                                
                                  he is so plesaunt vnto euery man
                                
                                  ffor craft is al who so þat it can
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                                  þat euery wight is fayn to teche him good
                                
                                  And fully in his lady grace he stood
                                
                                  þus lete I Damyan aboute his neede
                                
                                  And my tale forþ I wil procede [folio 155a] 
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                                  Some clerkes halden þat felicite;
                                
                                  Stant in delite and þerfore he
                                
                                  This noble Ianuare wiþ alle his might
                                
                                  In honeste wise as longeþ to a knight
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                                  Schop him to lyue ful deliciously
                                
                                  his housynge his array al honestely
                                
                                  To his degre was maked as a kinges
                                
                                  Among oþir of his honeste þinges

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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 342
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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