The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  Why hastow Ianuarie / thus deceyued
                                
                                  That haddest hym / for thy ful freend receyued
                                
                                  And now thou hast biraft hym bothe hise eyen
                                
                                  ffor sorwe of which / desireth he to dyen
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                                  ¶ Allas / this noble Ianuarie free
                                
                                  Amydde his lust and his prosperitee
                                
                                  Is woxen blynd / and that al sodeynly [folio 115b] 
                                
                                  He wepeth and he wayleth pitously
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                                  And ther with al / the fyr of Ialousie
                                
                                  Lest þat his wyf/ sholde falle in swich folye
                                
                                  So brente his herte / that he wolde fayn
                                
                                  That som man / bothe hym and hire had slayn
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                                  ffor neither after his deeth / nor in his lyf
                                
                                  Ne wolde he / þat she were loue ne wyf
                                
                                  But euere lyue as wydwe in clothes blake
                                
                                  Soul as the turtle / þat lost hath hire make
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                                  But atte laste / after a Monthe or tweye
                                
                                  His sorwe gan aswage / sooth to seye
                                
                                  ffor whan he wiste / it may noon oother be
                                
                                  He paciently / took his Aduersitee
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                                  Saue out of doute / he may nat forgoon
                                
                                  That he nas Ialous / eueremoore in oon
                                
                                  Which Ialousye / it was so outrageous
                                
                                  That neither in halle / nyn noon oother hous
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                                  Nyn noon oother place / neuerthemo
                                
                                  He nolde suffre hire / for to ryde or go
                                
                                  But if þat he / had hond on hire alway
                                
                                  ffor which ful ofte / wepeth fresshe May
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                                  That loueth Damyan / so benyngnely
                                
                                  That she moot outher dyen sodeynly
                                
                                  Or elles / she moot han hym as hir leste
                                
                                  She wayteth / whan hir herte wolde breste
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                                  ¶ Vp on that oother syde Damyan
                                
                                  Bicomen is / the sorwefulleste man
                                
                                  That euere was / for neither nyght ne day
                                
                                  Ne myghte he speke a word to fresshe May

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 300
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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