The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 452] 
                                  
                                  To haue his alone trusteþ to me
                                
                                  Ȝe schol nouȝt only plesen hire ȝeres þre
                                
                                  Þis is to sai done hire plesance
                                
                                  A wif axeþ ful mony an obse[r]uance
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                                  .I. praie ȝowe þat ȝe ne been yuel apaide
                                
                                  Wele quod þis Ianuar and hast þou al seide
                                
                                  A strawe for þi Senec and for þi prouerbes
                                
                                  .I. count nouht a panyȝer ful of herbes
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                                  Of skole termes wisere men þan þoue
                                
                                  As þou hast herde assenten riht nowe
                                
                                  To my purpos Placebo what seie ȝe
                                
                                  .I. seie it is a corsed man quod he
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                                  Þa[t] letteþ matrimonye sekurlye
                                
                                  And wiþ þat worde þei resen sodanlye
                                
                                  And buen assented ffulli þat he schold
                                
                                  Be wedded whan him lust and whan he wolde
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                                  The fantasy and þe besy curiousenesse
                                
                                  Fro day to day gan in þe soule impresse
                                
                                  Of Ianuare aboute his mariage
                                
                                  Many faire schapen and mony faire visage
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                                  þere passeþ þourhe his hert nyht be nyht
                                
                                  As who so take a merour pulisshed briht
                                
                                  And set it in a comune Market place
                                
                                  Than scholde he se mony a figure pace
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                                  Be his merour and in þe same wise
                                
                                  Gan Ianuar in wiþ his þouht deuise
                                
                                  Of Maidenes whiche þat dwelt be side
                                
                                  He wiste nouht where he myht abide
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                                  For þouhe þat one haþe beuty in hir face
                                
                                  Anoþer stant so in þe peples grace
                                
                                  For hir sadnes and hire benignite
                                
                                  þat of þe peple grettest voice had sche
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                                  And sum were riche and had bad name
                                
                                  Bot naþeles betuyx ernest and game
                                
                                  He att þe laste apoynted him on one [folio 133a] 
                                
                                  An lete al oþere fro his hert gone

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 330
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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