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

                                
                                     [6-text p 474] 
                                  
                                  Gan pullen vp þe smok and in he throng
                                
                                  And whan þat pluto /saugh þis grete wrong
                                
                                  To Ianuary he ȝaf his sight agayn
                                
                                  . . . . .
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                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  Ne was þer neuer man of þing so fayn
                                
                                  But on his wif his þought was euermo
                                
                                  Vp to þe tree he kest his eyȝen tuo /
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                                  And seigh þat damyan his wyf had dressid
                                
                                  In which maner it may not ben expressid
                                
                                  But if I wolde speke vncurteisly
                                
                                  And vp he ȝaf a roryng and a cry
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                                  As doth þe moder whan þe child schal dye
                                
                                  Out. help. allas. harrow. he gan to crie
                                
                                  O stronge lady stoure what dos þow
                                
                                  And sche answerith sire what eylith ȝow
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                                  haue paciens and resoun in ȝour mynde
                                
                                  I haue ȝow holpen on boþe ȝour eyen blynde
                                
                                  vp peril of my soule I schal not lyen
                                
                                  As me was taught to hele with ȝour yen
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                                  was noþing bet. for to make ȝow see
                                
                                  Than stroggle wiþ a man vpon a tree
                                
                                  God woot I dede it in ful good entent
                                
                                  Stroggle quod he; ȝe algat in it went
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                                  God ȝiue ȝow boþe on schames deth to dyen
                                
                                  He swyued þe. I saugh it wiþ myn yen
                                
                                  And elles be I honged by þe hals
                                
                                  Than is quod sche medicine fals [folio 148a] 
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                                  For certeynly if þat ȝe mighten see
                                
                                  Ȝe wold not say tho wordes vnto me
                                
                                  Ȝe han som glymsyng and no parfyt sight
                                
                                  I se quod he as wel as euer I might
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                                  Thankid be god wiþ boþe myn yen tuo
                                
                                  And by my trouth me þought he did þe so
                                
                                  Ȝe. mase. mase. goode sire quod sche
                                
                                  This þank haue I for I haue maad ȝow see

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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 333
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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