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

                                
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                                  why hastow Ianuary þus deceyued
                                
                                  That haddist him for þy fulle frend receyued
                                
                                  And now þou hast byreft him boþe his yen
                                
                                  For sorw of which desireth he to dyen
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                                  Allas þis noble Ianuary fre
                                
                                  Amyd his lust and his prosperite
                                
                                  Is woxe blynd and þat al sodeynly
                                
                                  he wepith and he weyleth pitously
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                                  And þer with al þe fuyr of Ialousye
                                
                                  lest þat his wif schuld falle in som folye [folio 144a] 
                                
                                  So brent his herte. þat he wolde fayn
                                
                                  That som man boþe hir and him had slayn
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                                  For neyþer after his deth nor in his lyf
                                
                                  Ne wold he þat sche were loue ne wyf
                                
                                  But euer lyue as wydow in clothes blake /
                                
                                  Soul as þe turtil þat lost haþ hir make
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                                  But atte last after a moneth or tweye
                                
                                  his sorwe gan aswage soþ to seye
                                
                                  For whan he wist it may noon oþer be /
                                
                                  he paciently took his aduersite
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                                  Saue out of doute he may not forgoon
                                
                                  That he nas Ialous euermore in oon
                                
                                  which Ialousie it was so outrageous
                                
                                  That neyþer in halle. ne in noon oþer hous
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                                  Ne in noon oþer place neuer þe mo
                                
                                  he nolde suffre hir to ryde or go
                                
                                  But if þat he had hond on hir alway
                                
                                  For which ful ofte wepeth freische may
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                                  That loueth Damyan so benignely
                                
                                  That sche moot outher deyen sodeinly
                                
                                  Or elles sche moot han him as hir lest
                                
                                  She waytith whan hir herte wolde brest
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                                  vpon þat oþer syde Damyan
                                
                                  Bicomen is þe sorwfulleste man
                                
                                  That euer was for neyther night ne day
                                
                                  Ne might he speke a word wiþ fressche may

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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 325
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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