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

                                
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                                  And wiþ hire fingers signes maade sche
                                
                                  þat Damyan scholde climbe vpon þe tre
                                
                                  þat chargede was wiþ fruyte a[n]d vpe he wente
                                
                                  For verraily he knewe al hir entent
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                                  And euery signe þat sche couþe make
                                
                                  Wele bett þan Ianuare hire owen make
                                
                                  For in a lettre sche had told him al
                                
                                  Of þis matiere houe he werche schal
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                                  And þus I lete sette in þe pire
                                
                                  And Ianuare and Mayus rouneinge ful merie
                                
                                  Briht was þe daie and bleue þe firmament
                                
                                  Phebus of golde doune haþ his stremes sent
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                                  To gladen euery floure wiþ his warmenesse
                                
                                  He was þat time in geminis as .I. gesse
                                
                                  Bot litul fro his declinacioun
                                
                                  Of Cancer Iouys exaltacioun
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                                  ¶ And so be-fel in a briht morwe tide
                                
                                  þat in þe gardine on þat ferþire side
                                
                                  Pluto þat is þe kinge of faire
                                
                                  And mony a ladi in his companye
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                                  Folowinge his wif þe queene Proserpina
                                
                                  Whiche þat he rauesched oute of proserpina.
                                
                                  Whiles þat sche gaderd floures in a mede [folio 140b] 
                                
                                  In claudian ȝe maie þe storis rede
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                                  How in his grisly carte he hire fette
                                
                                  This kinge of ffaire a-doune him sette
                                
                                  Vppon a benche of torues frische and grene
                                
                                  And riht anone seide he þus vnto his qwene
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                                  My wif quod he þat maie not seie naie
                                
                                  The experiens proueth it euery daie
                                
                                  The treson whiche þat womman doþ to man
                                
                                  Ten hundreþ þousand tell .I. can
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                                  Notable of ȝoure vntreuþe and brutelnes
                                
                                  Of Salomon rychest of al riches
                                
                                  Ful filled of Sapiens and of werly glorie
                                
                                  Ful worþi bien þi wordes to memorie

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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 348
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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