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

                                
                                     [6-text p 467] 
                                  
                                  As to his purpos of no such matiere /
                                
                                  But if þat Ianuarie most it here /
                                
                                  þat hadde oon hond on hir euer mo
                                
                                  And naþeles by wrytyng to and fro
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                                  And pryue signes wist he what sche ment/
                                
                                  And sche knew of þe signe of his entent
                                
                                  O Ianuarie what mighte þe affayle /
                                
                                  þou mightest see as fer as schippes sayle
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                                  ffor a[s] good is a blynd disceyued be
                                
                                  As to be deceyued whan a man may se
                                
                                  Lo argus which þat hadde an C. eyen
                                
                                  ffor al þat euer he couþe poure or prien
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                                  ȝit was he blent and god wot so ben mo
                                
                                  þat wenyn wisly þat it nys nat so
                                
                                  Passe ouer is an ese and say nomore
                                
                                  This freissche may of which I spak of yore
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                                  In warm wax haþ emprynted þis cliket
                                
                                  þat Ianuarye bar of þis smale wyket
                                
                                  By which vnto his gardyn ofte he wente
                                
                                  And Damyan þat knew hire entente
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                                  þe clyket countrefeted priuily
                                
                                  Ther nys no more to say but hastyly
                                
                                  Som wonder by his cliket schal betyde /
                                
                                  Which ȝe schullen heere if ȝe woln abyde
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                                  O noble Ovyde soþ saist þou god wot
                                
                                  What sleight is it þough it be long and hoot
                                
                                  That he nyl fynde it out in som manere
                                
                                  By Pyramus and Thysbe may men leere [folio 156b] 
                                
                                  þough þey were kepte ful longe streiȝt ouer al
                                
                                  þey ben acorded rownynge þurgh a wal
                                
                                  þer is no wight couþe han founde out such a sleiȝte
                                
                                  But now to purpos er þat dayes eyȝte
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                                  Were passed or þe monþe of Iuyl byfille
                                
                                  þat Ianuarye haþ caught so gret a wille
                                
                                  þurgh eggyng of his wijf him for to pleye
                                
                                  In his gardyn and no wight but þey tweye

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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 345
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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