The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 461] 
                                  
                                  ¶ The moone þat anoon was þilke day
                                
                                  That Ianuary had weddid freische may
                                
                                  In tuo of taure was in to Cancre gliden
                                
                                  So long hath mayus in hir chambre abiden
                                  Line 1888 
                                
                                  As custom is vnto þese nobles alle
                                
                                  A bryde schal not eten in þe halle
                                
                                  Til dayes foure. or þre dayes atte lest
                                
                                  I-passed ben. þan let hir go to þe fest
                                  Line 1892 
                                
                                  The fourthe day complet fro noon to noon
                                
                                  whan þat þe heighe masse was I-doon
                                
                                  In halle sitte. þis Ianuary and may.
                                
                                  As freissch as is þe brighte someres day
                                  Line 1896 
                                
                                  And so bifelle þat þis goode man
                                
                                  Remembrid him vpon þis Damyan
                                
                                  And sayde seinte mary how may þis be
                                
                                  That Damyan entendith not to me
                                  Line 1900 
                                
                                  Is he ay seek or how may þis bityde
                                
                                  his squiers which þat stoode þer bisyde.
                                
                                  Excusid him by cause of his syknesse
                                
                                  which letted him to doon his busynesse
                                  Line 1904 
                                
                                  Noon oþer cause mighte make him tarie
                                
                                  That me forthinkith quod þis Ianuarie
                                
                                  he is a gentil squyer by my trouþe
                                
                                  If þat he deyde it were harm and routhe
                                  Line 1908 
                                
                                  he is as wys discret and eek secre
                                
                                  As any man I wot of his degre
                                
                                  And þerto manerly and seruysable
                                
                                  And for to be a thrifty man right able
                                  Line 1912 
                                
                                  But after mete as soon as euer I may
                                
                                  I wol myself visit him and eek may
                                
                                  To doom him al þe comfort þat I can
                                
                                  And for þat word him blessed euery man
                                  Line 1916 
                                
                                  That of his bounte and his gentilesse
                                
                                  he wolde so comfort in seekenesse
                                
                                  his squyer. for it was a gentil deede
                                
                                  Dame quod þis Ianuary tak good heede

                                  Line 1920

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 320
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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