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

                                
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                                  He had a grardyne al walled wiþ stone
                                
                                  So faire a gardyne wote .I. ney where none
                                
                                  For oute of doute .I. verraily suppose
                                
                                  þat he þat wrote þe romans of þe rose
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                                  Ne couþe of it þe bewte wele deuise
                                
                                  Ne Priapus ne miht noȝt suffise
                                
                                  Þouhe he be god of Gardyns for to telle
                                
                                  The beute of þe gardyn and of þe welle
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                                  That vnder a laurer alwaie grene
                                
                                  Ful oft time kinge Pluto and his queene
                                
                                  Preserpina. and all hire fairee
                                
                                  Disporten hem and maken melodee
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                                  Abouten þat wel and daunced as men tolde
                                
                                  This noble knyht þis Ianuare þe olde
                                
                                  Suche deinte haþ in hit to walken and to pleie
                                
                                  That he wil suffur no wyht to be þe kaie
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                                  Saue he him self for of þe smale wiket
                                
                                  He bare alwaie of siluer a kleket
                                
                                  Wiþ þe whiche whan þat him vnschette
                                
                                  And whan he walde paie his wif hire dette
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                                  In somer seson þeder wolde he goo
                                
                                  And maie his wiff and no whiht bot þei tuoo
                                
                                  An þinges whiche þat were nouht done abedde
                                
                                  þei in þe Gardeine performed haue and spedde
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                                  And in þis wise mony a mery daie
                                
                                  Leued þis Ianuare and fressche maie
                                
                                  Bott werldly Ioy mai nouht alweie endure
                                
                                  To Ianuare ne to no werldly creture
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                                  O sodeine happe o þou fortune vnstable
                                
                                  .I.-lyke to þe . þe scorpion vnstable
                                
                                  þat flaterst wiþ þin hede whan þou wilt stinge
                                
                                  Thi taile . is deþ þoruhe þine enuenymynge
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                                  O brutel ioye O swete poyson queynte
                                
                                  O mynester þat solely can peinte
                                
                                  Thin ȝeftes vnder þe hewe of stedfastnesse [folio 138b] 
                                
                                  þat þou deceyuedest boþe more and lesse

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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 343
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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