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

                                
                                     [6-text p 459] 
                                  
                                  And þus to his priue frendes saide he
                                
                                  For goddes loue as sone as it may be
                                
                                  Late voyden al þis house in curteis wise sone
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                                  Men dronke and þe trauers droue anone
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                                  þe bride was brouht to bedd as stil as stone
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                                  So hasted Ianuarie it most be done [[spurious]] 
                                
                                  [And when the bedde was with the preste blessed [Harl. 1758 folio 82a] ]
                                
                                  Owte of þe chambre haþ euery wyght him dressed
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                                  And Ianuare haþe fast in armes take
                                
                                  His frisshe maie his paradis his maake
                                
                                  He lulliþ hire he kisseþ hir ful oft
                                
                                  Wiþ þilke bristeles of his berde vnsoft
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                                  ylike to þe skinne of hundefische scharpe as brere
                                
                                  For he was schaue al newe in his manere
                                
                                  He rubbeþ hir vpon hire tender face
                                
                                  And seid þus alas .I. must trespace
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                                  To ȝowe my spowse and ȝowe gretely offende
                                
                                  Or time come þat .I. wil downe descende
                                
                                  Bot naþeles considereþ þis quod he
                                
                                  þer nys no werkman whatt so euere he be
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                                  þat maie boþe werche wele and hastelye
                                
                                  This wil be done att leyser parfitelye
                                
                                  It is no force howe lon[ge] þat we pleye
                                
                                  .I. troue in wedlok complete be we tueye
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                                  And yblissed be þat ȝok þat we bue inne
                                
                                  For in oure actes we mowe do no sinne
                                
                                  A man maie do no sinne wiþ his wif
                                
                                  Ne hurt him self wiþ his owen knyf
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                                  Nowe we haue leue to pley vs be þe lawe
                                
                                  Thus laboureþ he til þat þe daie gun dawe
                                
                                  And þan he takeþ a soppe in fine clarre
                                
                                  And vp riht in his bedde þan sitteþ he
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                                  And after þat he songe ful loude and clere
                                
                                  An kessed his wif and maade wantoun chere
                                
                                  He was al coltisshe and ful of ragerie
                                
                                  And ful of Girgun as is a flecked pye

                                  Line 1848

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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 337
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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