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

                                
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                                  And hem reioysen in her cruel pride
                                
                                  And rekken nouȝt to ben an homicide
                                
                                  ¶ This gentil may fulfillid of pite
                                
                                  Right of hir hond a letter maked sche /
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                                  In which sche grauntith him hir verray grace
                                
                                  Ther lakkid nought but oonly day and place [folio 143a] 
                                
                                  wher þat sche might vnto his lust suffise
                                
                                  For it schal be right as he wol deuyse
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                                  And whan sche saugh hir tyme vpon a day
                                
                                  To visite þis damyan goþ May
                                
                                  And subtilly þis lettre doun sche thruste
                                
                                  Vnder his pylow. rede it if him luste
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                                  Sche takith him by þe hond and hard him twiste
                                
                                  So secrely þat no wight of hit wiste
                                
                                  And bad him be al hool and forþ sche wente
                                
                                  To Ianuary whan þat he for hir sente
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                                  vp ryseth Damyan þe nexte morwe
                                
                                  Al passed was his siknes and his sorwe /
                                
                                  He kembith him. he pruneth him and pyketh
                                
                                  he doth al þat vnto his lady likith
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                                  And eek to Ianuary he goth as lowe /
                                
                                  As euer did a dogge for þe bowe /
                                
                                  He is so plesaunt vnto euery man
                                
                                  For craft is al. who so þat do it can
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                                  That euery wight is fayn to speke him good
                                
                                  And fully in his lady grace he stood
                                
                                  Thus lete I damyan about his neede
                                
                                  And in my tale forth I wol procede
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                                  Some clerkes holden þat felicite
                                
                                  Stant in delit and þerfor certeyn he
                                
                                  This noble Ianuary with al his might
                                
                                  In honest wise as longith to a knight
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                                  Schop him to lyue ful deliciously
                                
                                  his housyng his array as honestly
                                
                                  To his degre was maked as a kynges
                                
                                  Amonges oþer of his honest þinges

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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 323
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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