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

                                
                                     [6-text p 470] 
                                  
                                  And wiþ hire fynger signes made sche
                                
                                  þat Damyan schulde clymbe vpon a tree
                                
                                  þat charged was wiþ fruyt and vp he wente
                                
                                  ffor verrayly he knew al hire entente
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                                  And euery signe þat sche couþe make
                                
                                  Wel bet þan Ianuarye hir owne make
                                
                                  ffor in a lettre sche hadde told him al
                                
                                  Of þis matiere how he worche schal
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                                  And þus I lete him sitte in þe Pyry
                                
                                  And Ianuarye and mayus rownynge myry
                                
                                  ¶ Bright was þe day and blew þe firmament
                                
                                  Phebus of gold doun haþ his stremes sent
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                                  To gladen euery flour wiþ his warmnesse
                                
                                  he was þat tyme in Gemynys as I gesse
                                
                                  But litel fro his declynacion
                                
                                  Of Cancer Iouys exaltacion
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                                  And so bifelle þat in a bright morwetyde
                                
                                  þat in þe gardyn on þat ferþer syde /
                                
                                  Pluto þat is þe king of fayerye
                                
                                  And many a lady in his companye
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                                  ffolwyng his wyf þe queene proserpyna
                                
                                  Which þat he rauyssched out of Proserpyna
                                
                                  Whiles þat sche gaderede floures in a mede
                                
                                  In Claudian ȝe may þe storyes rede
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                                  how in his grysly carte he hire fette
                                
                                  This kyng of fayerie a doun him sette
                                
                                  vpon a benche of/ toruys freissch and grene
                                
                                  And right anon seyde he þus to his queene [folio 158a] 
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                                  My wijf quod he þat may no wight seye nay
                                
                                  þe experiens proueþ it euery day
                                
                                  þe tresoun which þat womman doþ to man
                                
                                  Ten hundred þousand tellen I can /
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                                  Notable of ȝour vntrouþe and brytilnes
                                
                                  O Salamon richest of alle richesse
                                
                                  ffulfild of sapience and of worldly glorie
                                
                                  fful worþy ben þyne wordes to memorie

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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 348
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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