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

                                
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                                  As þat sche bare daunceinge in hire honde
                                
                                  So fressche sche was and þer-to so likeande [[Spurious. In Sloane 1686, leaf 184, back] 
                                
                                  And to his bed he went him hastely.
                                
                                  No more of him att þis time speke .I.
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                                  Bote .I. lete him wepe ynowe and pleine
                                
                                  Til frische maie wil rewe on his peine
                                
                                  O perelous fire þat in þe bedde strawe bredeþ
                                
                                  O famylere foo þat is seruise bedeþ
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                                  O seruant traitur fals holy hiew
                                
                                  .y-lyke to þe nadder sleiȝe and in bosom vntrewe
                                
                                  God schelde vs al fro ȝoure iniquitance
                                
                                  O Ianuere dronken in plesance
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                                  O mariage see how þine Damyan
                                
                                  þine owen swyer and þine borne man
                                
                                  Entendeþ to do þe velanye
                                
                                  God grant þe þine harme to aspie
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                                  For in þis werlde ne is wers pestilence
                                
                                  Þan humble fo aldaie in þi presence
                                
                                  Performed haþ þis devine daie his ark diurne
                                
                                  No longer maie þe bodie of him soiorne
                                  Line 1796 
                                
                                  The oriȝote as in þat latitude
                                
                                  Niht wiþ his mantil þat is derke and rude
                                
                                  Gan for to sprede þe mysprei aboute
                                
                                  For whiche departed is þe lusti route
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                                  For Ianuer wiþ þonke on euery side
                                
                                  Home to her houses lustely þei ride
                                
                                  þer as þei done her þinges as hem lest
                                
                                  And whan þei sawe her time go to rest
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                                  Sone after þat þis hastif Ianuare
                                
                                  Wil go to bedde. he wil no longer care.
                                
                                  He drinkeþ. ypocras clarre and vernage [folio 135b] 
                                
                                  Of spices ote to encresen his corage
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                                  And many a letuarie had he ful fyne
                                
                                  Suche as þe Cursed Monke Dam Constantine
                                
                                  Haþe wreten in his boke of coitue
                                
                                  To eten hem al he was noþinge eschewe

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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 336
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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