The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 456] 
                                  
                                  In wisdam & in trouthe of maryage
                                
                                  And seyde his orysounnys as is vsage
                                
                                  And crouchith hem & bit god schulde hem blysse
                                
                                  And made al sikyr I-nough with holynesse
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                                  Thus been they weddit with solempnetee
                                
                                  And at the laste sittyth he & sche
                                
                                  With othere worthi folk vp on the deys
                                
                                  Al ful of Ioye & blisse is the paleys
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                                  And ful of instrumentis & of vitayle
                                
                                  The moste deynteuous of al Itaylle
                                
                                  By-forn hem stood swich instrument of soun
                                
                                  That Orpheus nor [[r corrected]]  Thebes Amphioun
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                                  Ne made neuere swich a melodye
                                
                                  At euery cours þan cam loud menstralsye
                                
                                  That neuere trumped Ieob for to heere
                                
                                  Ne Theodomas ȝit half so cleere
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                                  At Thebes whan the Citee was in doute [folio 267a] 
                                
                                  Bacus the wyn hem shynketh alle a-boute
                                
                                  And venus laugheth vp-on euery wyght
                                
                                  ffor Ianuarye bycomyn was hire knyght
                                  Line 1724 
                                
                                  And wolde bothe asaye hise corage
                                
                                  In liberte & ek in maryage
                                
                                  And with hire fyr brond in hire hand a-boute
                                
                                  Daunceth by-fore the bryde & al the route
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                                  And certeynly I dare ryȝt wel sey this
                                
                                  Ymeneus / that god of weddyng is
                                
                                  Saw neuere his lyf / so merye a weddede man
                                
                                  Hold thow thyn pees / thow poete Marcian
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                                  That wrytist vs that ilke weddyng murye
                                
                                  Of hire Philologie / & hym mercurie
                                
                                  And of the song that the Musys sunge
                                
                                  To smal is bothe thi penne & ek thyn tunge
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                                  ffor to discryue of thyn maryage
                                
                                  Whan tender ȝouthe haue weddit stoupynge age
                                
                                  There is swych myrthe It may not been I-wretyn
                                
                                  Assayeth it ȝoure self thanne may ȝe wetyn

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 288
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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