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

                                
                                     [6-text p 462] 
                                  
                                  At aftyr mete ȝe with ȝore women alle
                                
                                  Whan ȝe han been in chaumbere out of this halle
                                
                                  That alle ȝe go to se this damyan
                                
                                  Doth hym disport he is a gentil man
                                  Line 1924 
                                
                                  And tellyth hym that I wele hym visite
                                
                                  Haue I no thyng but restede me a lyte
                                
                                  And speede ȝow faste for I wele a-byde
                                
                                  Til that ȝe slepe faste by myn syde
                                  Line 1928 
                                
                                  And with that word he gan to hym to calle
                                
                                  A squyer that was marchale of his halle
                                
                                  And told hym serteyn wordis that he wolde
                                
                                  This frosche May hath streyt hire woye I-holde
                                  Line 1932 
                                
                                  With alle hire wemen on to Damyan
                                
                                  Doun by his beddis syde sit sche than
                                
                                  Confortynge hym as goodly as sche may
                                
                                  This damyan whan that his tyme he say
                                  Line 1936 
                                
                                  In secre wyse his purs & ek his bille
                                
                                  In which that he I-wrytyn hadde [[he erased]]  his wille
                                
                                  Hath put In-to hire hand with-outyn moore
                                
                                  Saue þat he sikyth wondyr deepe & soore
                                  Line 1940 
                                
                                  And softely to hire thus seyde he
                                
                                  Mercy & that ȝe nat discouere me
                                
                                  ffor I am deed ȝif that this thyng be kyd
                                
                                  This purs hath sche / in with hire bosum hid
                                  Line 1944 
                                
                                  And wente hyre woy ȝe gete no more of me
                                
                                  But vn-to Ianuarye I-comyn is. sche
                                
                                  That on his. beddis. syde sat ful softe
                                
                                  And thakyth hire & kysseth hire ful ofte
                                  Line 1948 
                                
                                  And leyde hym doun to slepe & that a-non [folio 270a] 
                                
                                  Sche feynede hire as that sche muste goon
                                
                                  There as ȝe wot that euery man mot neede
                                
                                  And whan sche of that bille hath takyn heede
                                  Line 1952 
                                
                                  Sche rente it al to cloutis at the laste
                                
                                  And in the pryue softely it caste
                                
                                  ¶ Who stodyeth now but fayre frosche May
                                
                                  A-doun by olde Ianuarye sche lay

                                  Line 1956

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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 294
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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