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

                                
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                                  And wiþ hir fyngres signes made sche
                                
                                  That damyan schuld clymb vpon a tre [nota] 
                                
                                  That charged was with fruyt/ and vp he went/
                                
                                  For verrayly he knew al hir entent
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                                  And euery signe þat sche couthe make
                                
                                  wel bet þan Ianuary hir oughne make
                                
                                  For in a letter sche had told him al
                                
                                  Of þis matier how he worche shal
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                                  And þus I lete him sitte vpon þe pirie
                                
                                  And Ianuary and may romynge mirye
                                
                                  ¶ Bright was þe day and bliew þe firmament
                                
                                  Phebus haþ of gold his stremes doun I-sent
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                                  To gladen euery flour with his warmnesse
                                
                                  he was þat tyme in gemmes as I gesse
                                
                                  But litel fro his declinacioun
                                
                                  Of Caker . Ioues exaltacioun
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                                  And so bifel þat brighte morwen tyde
                                
                                  That in þat gardyn in þe ferther syde / [folio 146a] 
                                
                                  Pluto that is kyng of fayerye
                                
                                  And many a lady in his compaignie
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                                  Folwyng his wif þe queene preserpine
                                
                                  Ech after oþer . as right as a lyne
                                
                                  whil þat sche gadred floures in þe mede
                                
                                  In claudian ȝe may þe story rede
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                                  how in þis grisly carte he hir fette
                                
                                  This king of fayry þan adoun him sette /
                                
                                  vpon a bench of turues freissh and greene
                                
                                  And right anoon þus sayd he to his queene /
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                                  ¶ My wyf quod he þer may no wight say nay
                                
                                  Thexperiens so preueth euery day
                                
                                  The tresoun which þat womman doth to man
                                
                                  Ten hundrid þousand . tellen I can
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                                  Notable of ȝour vntrouth and brutelnesse
                                
                                  O . Salamon wys and richest of richesse /
                                
                                  Fulfild of Sapiens . and of worldly glorie /
                                
                                  Ful worþy ben þy wordes to memorie

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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 329
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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