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

                                
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                                  That in a mor vn-to his may seide he
                                
                                  Rise vp my wife my loue my lady fre
                                
                                  The turtlys voice is herde my doufe swete
                                
                                  The winter is gone wiþ al Reynes wete
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                                  Com forþe nowe wiþ þin eyȝen Columbyne
                                
                                  Howe feirer buen þi brestes þan is wyne
                                
                                  The gardine es enclosed al aboute
                                
                                  Com forþe my white spouse oute of doute
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                                  Þou hast me wounded in myn hert o wif
                                
                                  No spotte in þe was in al my lif
                                
                                  Com forþ and lat vs take oure disporte [folio 139b] 
                                
                                  .I. chese þe for my wif and my comforte
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                                  Suche olde lewde wordes vsed he
                                
                                  On Damya[n] a signe Maade sche
                                
                                  þat he scholde go be-forne wiþ his cleket
                                
                                  þis Damyan haþe openede þe weket
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                                  And in he sterte and þat in suche manere
                                
                                  þat no wight myht it se ne here
                                
                                  And still he sit vnder a busche anone
                                
                                  This Ianuare so blinde as is a stone
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                                  Wiþ Mayus in his honde and no whight mo
                                
                                  In to his frische gardein is he goo
                                
                                  And clapped to þe weket sodanlye
                                
                                  Nowe wif quod he here nys bot þou and .I.
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                                  þat art the creature þat .I. best loue
                                
                                  For be þat lorde þat sitteþ vs al aboue
                                
                                  .I. had leuer deyȝen on a knyf
                                
                                  Than þe offenden my dere treue wif
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                                  For goddes sake þinke howe .I. þe ches
                                
                                  Nouht for no Coueites douteles
                                
                                  Bott onely for þe loue .I. had to þe
                                
                                  And þouht þat .I. be olde and maye nouht see
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                                  Be to me trewe and .I. wil tel ȝowe whie
                                
                                  Certes þrei þinges schal ȝe winne þere bie
                                
                                  Firste loue of Criste and to ȝowre self honour
                                
                                  And al myne Heritage tonne and toure

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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 346
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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