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

                                
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                                  And hem reioysen in þeire crouel pride
                                
                                  And reccheþ nouȝt to bue an homycide
                                
                                  This gentil maie ful filled of al pite
                                
                                  Riht so of hire honde a letter maade sche
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                                  In whiche sche graunteþ him of hire verraie grace
                                
                                  Thar lakeþ nouht onely bot daie and place
                                
                                  Where þat sche miht to his lust suffice
                                
                                  For it schal bue riht as he wil deuise
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                                  And whan sche see hire tim vpon a daie
                                
                                  To visite þis Damyan goþe þis faire maie
                                
                                  And sotelly þis letter doune sche þrest
                                
                                  Vnder his pilowe rede if him lest
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                                  Sche takeþ him be þe honde and harde him tueste
                                
                                  So secretely þat no whight it weste
                                
                                  And bad him be al hole and forþe sche wente
                                
                                  To Ianuare whan þat he for hire sente
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                                  Vp riseþe Damyan þe next morwe
                                
                                  Al passed was his sekenes and his sorwe
                                
                                  He kembeþ him and proyneþ and pikeþ
                                
                                  He doþ al þat his lady luste and likeþ
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                                  And eke to Ianuare he goþe as lowe
                                
                                  As euere dide a doge for þe bowe
                                
                                  He is so plesante to euery man
                                
                                  Fro craft it is who þat it can
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                                  þat euery whight is feine to teche him goode
                                
                                  And fully in his ladie grace he stode
                                
                                  Thus lete .I. Damyan aboute his nede
                                
                                  And my tale forþe .I. wil procede
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                                  Somme clerkes halden þat felicite [folio 138a] 
                                
                                  Stant in delite and þarefor he
                                
                                  This Noble Ianuare wiþ al his myht
                                
                                  In honest wise as longeþ to a knyht
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                                  Schope him to leue ful deliciously
                                
                                  His houseynge his arraie al honestly
                                
                                  To his degre was maked as kenges
                                
                                  Amonge oþere of his honest þinges

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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 342
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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