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

                                
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                                  Why hast þou Ianuare þus deceyued
                                
                                  And haddist him for þi fulle frend receyued
                                
                                  And now þou hast byraft him boþe his eyen
                                
                                  ffor sorwe of which desireþ he to deyen
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                                  Allas þis noble Ianuare þat is so fre
                                
                                  Amydde his lust and his prosperite
                                
                                  Is woxen blynde and al sodeynly
                                
                                  his deþ þerfore desireþ he outrely
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                                  And þer wiþ al þe fyr of Ielousye
                                
                                  leste þat his wijf schulde falle in som folye
                                
                                  So brent his herte þat he wolde fayn
                                
                                  That som man boþe hire and him hadde slayn
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                                  ffor neuer [after] his deþ ne in his lyf
                                
                                  Ne wolde he þat sche were loue ne wyf
                                
                                  But euer lyue as a wydewe in cloþes blake
                                
                                  Soule as þe turtil doþ þat haþ lost hire make /
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                                  But at þe laste after a monþe or tweye
                                
                                  his sorwe gan to swage soþ to seye
                                
                                  ffor when he wiste it/ may non oþer be
                                
                                  he paciently took his aduersite
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                                  Saf out of doute may he nouȝt forgon
                                
                                  þat he nas Ielous euermore in oon
                                
                                  Which Ielousie it was so outrageous
                                
                                  þat neiþer in halle ne in non oþer hous
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                                  he nolde suffre hire for to ryde ne go
                                
                                  Ne in non oþer place neuer þe mo
                                
                                  But if þat he hadde hond on hire alway
                                
                                  ffor which ful ofte wepeþ freisshe may [folio 156a] 
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                                  That loueþ Damyan so benignely
                                
                                  þat sche moot eyþer deye sodeinly
                                
                                  Or elles sche mote han him at hire leste
                                
                                  sche wayteþ whan hir herte wolde toberste
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                                  vpon þat oþer syde Damyan
                                
                                  Bycomen is þe sorwfulleste man
                                
                                  þat euere was for neiþer night nor day
                                
                                  Ne might he speke a word to freisshe may

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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 344
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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