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

                                
                                     [6-text p 468] 
                                  
                                  That in a morwe vnto his may sayde he
                                
                                  Rise vp my wijf/ my loue my lady fre
                                
                                  þe turtlis voys is herd my doufe sweete
                                
                                  The wynter is gon with alle his reynes weete
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                                  Com forþ now wiþ þin eyen columbyne
                                
                                  how fairer ben þy brestes þan is wyne
                                
                                  þe gardyn is enclosed al aboute
                                
                                  Come forþ my white spouse out of doute
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                                  þou hast me wounded in myn herte O wyf
                                
                                  No spotte in þe nas in al þy lyf
                                
                                  Com forþ and let vs taken oure disport
                                
                                  I chees þe for my wyff and my confort
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                                  Suche olde lowde wordes vsed he
                                
                                  On damyan a signe made sche
                                
                                  That he schulde go biforn wiþ his clyket
                                
                                  þis damyan haþ opened þe wyket
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                                  And in he sterte and þat in such manere
                                
                                  þat no wight might it se ne heere
                                
                                  And stille he sitt vnder a bussch anon
                                
                                  This Ianuare so blynd as is a stoon
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                                  Wiþ mayus in his hond and no wight mo
                                
                                  In to his freisshe gardyn is he go
                                
                                  And clapte to þe wyket sodeynly
                                
                                  Now wiff quod he her nys but þou and I
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                                  þat art þe creature þat I best loue
                                
                                  ffor by þat lord þat sitt vs alle aboue
                                
                                  I hadde leuer deyen on a knyf
                                
                                  Then þe offenden deere trewe wyf [folio 157a] 
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                                  ffor goddes sake þenk how I þe chees
                                
                                  Nouȝt for no coueytise dowteles /
                                
                                  But oonly for þe loue I hadde to þe
                                
                                  And þough þat I be olde and may nouȝt se
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                                  Be to me trewe and I wol telle ȝou why
                                
                                  Certes þre þinges scholden ȝe wynne þerby
                                
                                  ffirst loue of crist and to ȝour self honour
                                
                                  And al myn heritage toun and tour

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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 346
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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