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

                                
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                                  he made a gardyn walled al wiþ stoon
                                
                                  So fair a Gardyn wot I no wher noon
                                
                                  For out of doute I verrely suppose
                                
                                  That he þat wroot þe romauns of þe Rose
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                                  Ne couþe of hit þe beaute wel deuyse
                                
                                  Ne Pirapus ne might not wel suffise
                                
                                  Though he be god of gardyns for to telle /
                                
                                  The beaute of þe gardyn and þe welle [folio 143b] 
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                                  That stood vnder a laurer alway greene
                                
                                  Ful ofte tyme he pluto and his queene
                                
                                  Preserpina and al þe fayerie
                                
                                  Desporten hem and maken melodye
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                                  Aboute þat welle and daunced as men tolde
                                
                                  This noble knight þis Ianuary þe olde
                                
                                  Such deynte haþ in it to walk and pleye
                                
                                  That he wold no wight suffre bere þe keye
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                                  Saue he himself for of þe smale wyket
                                
                                  he bar alway of siluer a smal cliket
                                
                                  wiþ which whan þat him list he it vnschette
                                
                                  And whan he wolde pay his wyf hir dette /
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                                  In somer sesoun þider wold he go
                                
                                  And may his wyf and no wight but þay tuo
                                
                                  And þinges which. þat weren not doon in bedde
                                
                                  he in þe gardyn parformed hem and spedde
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                                  And in þis wise many a mery day
                                
                                  lyued þis Ianuary and freische may
                                
                                  But worldly ioye may not alway endure
                                
                                  To Ianuary ne to no creature
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                                  ¶ O sodeyn hap. O þou fortune vnstable [nota bene] 
                                
                                  lyk to þe scorpioun so desceyuable
                                
                                  Þat flaterest with þin heed whan þou wilt stynge
                                
                                  Thy tayl is deþ þurgh þin enuenymynge
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                                  O. britel ioye. o sweete venym queynte
                                
                                  O monster þat so subtily canst peynte
                                
                                  Thyn ȝiftes vnder hiew of stedfastnesse
                                
                                  That þou desceyuest boþe more and lesse /

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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 324
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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