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

                                
                                     [6-text p 474] 
                                  
                                  gan pulle vp the smok / and in he thronge [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14]] 
                                
                                  and whan that Pluto saw / that grete wronge
                                
                                  to Ianuarie he gaff ageyne / his sight
                                
                                  and made him se / as wel as euer he myght
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                                  and whan that he / had his sight agayne
                                
                                  ther was neuer man of thing / so fayne
                                
                                  but on his wiff / his thought was euermo
                                
                                  vp to the tre / he caste his eyghen two
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                                  and saw how Damyan / his wiff had dressed
                                
                                  in suche manere / hit may not ben expressed
                                
                                  but if I wolde speke / vncurteysly
                                
                                  and vp he gaff / a roryng and a cry
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                                  as doth the moder / whan the childe shal dye
                                
                                  oowte helpe allas / harrow he gan crye
                                
                                  o stronge lady stoure / what doist thow
                                
                                  and she answerde / sir what eylith yow
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                                  haue pacience and resoun / in youre mynde
                                
                                  I haue yow holpen / on bothe youre eyghen blynde
                                
                                  vp perel of my soule / I shal not lyen
                                
                                  as me was tavght / to hele with youre eyghen
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                                  was nothing bet / to make yow se
                                
                                  than strogle with a man / vppon a tre
                                
                                  god woot I did hit / in ful good entente
                                
                                  stride quod he / ye algate in hit wente
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                                  god yeve yow both / on shames deth to dien
                                
                                  he did the so / I sigh it with myn eyghen
                                
                                  and ellis be I honged / by the hals
                                
                                  than is quod she / my medicyne al fals
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                                  for certeynly if that ye myghten see
                                
                                  ye wolde not seye / tho wordis vn-to me
                                
                                  ye han som glymsyng / and no parfite sight
                                
                                  I se quod he as wel / as euer I myght
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                                  thonked be god / with both myn eyghen two
                                
                                  and bi my trouthe me thoughte he did the so
                                
                                  ye mase mase goode sir / quod she [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 131a] 
                                
                                  this thanke haue I / for I haue made yow se

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

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