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

                                
                                     [6-text p 461] 
                                  
                                  The mone þat att none was þat ilke daie
                                
                                  Þat Ianuar haþe wedded þat fressche maie
                                
                                  In tuo of taure was in þe Cankre gliden
                                
                                  So longe haþe sche in hir chambre byden
                                  Line 1888 
                                
                                  As custume is vnto þis noblis all
                                
                                  A bride schal nouhte eten in þe hall
                                
                                  Til daies foure oþere þre att leste
                                
                                  .I.-passed buen þan late hir go to feste
                                  Line 1892 
                                
                                  The fourte daie complete fro none to none [folio 136b] 
                                
                                  Whan þat þe hihe messe was done
                                
                                  In hall sitteþ þis Ianuer and maie
                                
                                  As fresshe as is þe briht somers daie
                                  Line 1896 
                                
                                  And so be-fel howe þat þis goode man
                                
                                  Remembreþ him vpon þis Damian
                                
                                  And seide seinte marie howe maie þis be
                                
                                  þat Damyan entendeþ nouht to me
                                  Line 1900 
                                
                                  Is he aie seke or howe maie þis be-tide
                                
                                  His swyers whiche þat stoden him be-side
                                
                                  excuseinge him be cause of his sekenesse
                                
                                  Whiche þat letid him to done his besinesse
                                  Line 1904 
                                
                                  None oþere cause myht make him care
                                
                                  That me for-þinkeþ quod þis Ianuare
                                
                                  He is a gentil swyer be my trouþe
                                
                                  If þat he deie it were harme and rouþe
                                  Line 1908 
                                
                                  He is as wise discrete and secre
                                
                                  As any man .I. wote of his degre
                                
                                  And þer-to manly and eke seruisable
                                
                                  And for to be a þrifty man riht able
                                  Line 1912 
                                
                                  Bot after mete as sone as euer y maie
                                
                                  .I. wil my self viset him and eke maie
                                
                                  To done him al þe comfort þat .I. can
                                
                                  And for þat worde blissed him euery man
                                  Line 1916 
                                
                                  þat of his bounte and his gentilnesse
                                
                                  He wolde so comforten him in his sekenesse
                                
                                  His swyere for it was a gentil dede
                                
                                  Dame quod he þis Ianuare takeþ good hede

                                  Line 1920

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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 339
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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