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

                                
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                                  Gan pullen vp the smok / and In he throng
                                
                                  ¶ And whan þat Pluto / saugh this grete wrong
                                
                                  To Ianuarie / he gaf agayn his sighte
                                
                                  And made hym se / as wel as euere he myghte
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                                  And whan þat he / hadde caught his sighte agayn
                                
                                  Ne was ther neuere / man of thyng so fayn
                                
                                  But on his wyf/ his thoght was eueremo [folio 118b] 
                                
                                  Vp to the tree / he caste hise eyen two
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                                  And saugh þat Damyan / his wyf had dressed
                                
                                  In swich manere / it may nat been expressed
                                
                                  But if I wolde / speke vncurteisly
                                
                                  And vp he yaf / a roryng and a cry
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                                  As dooth the mooder / whan the child shal dye
                                
                                  Out helpe / allas / harrow he gan to crye
                                
                                  O stronge lady stoore / what dostow?
                                
                                  ¶ And she answerde / sire what eyleth yow?
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                                  Haue pacience / and reson in youre mynde
                                
                                  I haue yow holpe / on bothe youre eyen blynde
                                
                                  Vp peril of my soule / I shal nat lyen
                                
                                  As me was taught / to heele with youre eyen
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                                  Was no thyng bet to make yow to see
                                
                                  Than strugle with a man / vp on a tree
                                
                                  God woot I dide it / in ful good entente
                                
                                  ¶ Strugle quod he? ye algate In it wente
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                                  God yeue yow bothe / on shames deth to dyen
                                
                                  He swyued thee / I saugh it. with myne eyen
                                
                                  And elles / be I hanged by the hals
                                
                                  ¶ Thanne is quod she / my medicyne fals
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                                  ffor certeinly / if that ye myghte se
                                
                                  Ye wolde nat seyn / thise wordes vn to me
                                
                                  Ye han som glymsyng and no parfit sighte
                                
                                  ¶ I se quod he / as wel as euere I myghte
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                                  Thonked be god / with bothe myne eyen two
                                
                                  And by my trouthe / me thoughte he dide thee so
                                
                                  ¶ Ye maze / maze / goode sire quod she
                                
                                  This thank haue I / for I haue maad yow see

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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 308
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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