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

                                
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                                  Whi hast þou Ianuer þus deceyued
                                
                                  And haddest him for þi ful frende receyued
                                
                                  And now þou hast be-raft him boþ his eyen
                                
                                  For sorwe of whiche desireþ he to deiȝen
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                                  Alas þis noble Ianuare þat is so fre
                                
                                  Amydde his luste and his prosperite
                                
                                  Is waxon blinde and al sodanly
                                
                                  His deþ þere-for desireþ he vtterly
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                                  And þere-wiþ-al þe fire of Ielousye
                                
                                  Lest þat his [wif] schold fall in sum folye
                                
                                  So bernt his hert þat wolde feine
                                
                                  Thatt summe man boþe hir and him had sleine
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                                  For neuer after his deþ ne in his lif
                                
                                  Ne wolde he þat sche were loue ne wif
                                
                                  Bot euer leue as a wedew in cloþes blake
                                
                                  Soule as a tortle doþe þat haþ lost hir make
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                                  Bot att þe last after a Moneþ or tuey
                                
                                  His sorwhe gan to swage soþe to sey
                                
                                  For whan he wiste it mai none oþer be
                                
                                  He paciently tok his aduersite
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                                  Saf oute of doute maie he noȝt for-gone
                                
                                  Þat he nas Ielous euer more in one
                                
                                  Whiche Ielouse it was so outrageous
                                
                                  þat neiþere in hal ne in none oþere hous
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                                  Ne in none oþere place neuer þe mo
                                
                                  He nold suffre hir neyþer ride nor go
                                
                                  Bot if þat he hande on hire alweie
                                
                                  For whiche ful of wepeþ frische maye
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                                  þat loueþ Damyan so benyngly
                                
                                  þat sche mote eiþer deie sodanly
                                
                                  Or elles sche most han him att hire lust
                                
                                  Sche waiteþ whan hire hert wald birst
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                                  Vppon þat oþer side Damyan
                                
                                  Becommen is þe sorwfulhest man
                                
                                  Þat euer was for neiþer niht ne daie
                                
                                  Ne myht he speke a worde to fresche maie

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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 344
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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