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

                                
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                                  And hem reioysyn in hire crewel pryde
                                
                                  And rekkyn nat to been An homytyde
                                
                                  This gentil May fulfyld of pitee
                                
                                  Ryȝt of hire owene hand makede sche
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                                  In which sche grauntyth hym hire werray grace
                                
                                  There lakkyth not but only day & space
                                
                                  Where that sche myȝte vn-to his lust suffyse
                                
                                  ffor it schal been ryȝt as ȝe wele deuyse
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                                  And whan sche saugh hire tyme vp-on a day
                                
                                  To visite þis Damyan/ goth May
                                
                                  And subtyly this lettere doun sche threste
                                
                                  Vndyr his pilwe rede it ȝif him leste
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                                  Sche takyth hym by the hand & harde [[rde corrected]]  hym twyste
                                
                                  So secrely that no man of it wyste
                                
                                  And bad hym been al hol / & forth sche wente
                                
                                  To Ianuarye whan that he for hire sente
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                                  ¶ Vp ryseth Damyan [[a corrected]]  the nexte morwe
                                
                                  Al passede was his siknesse & his sorwe
                                
                                  And kymbith hym & proynyth [[a partly al|tered to o]]  hym & pikyth
                                
                                  He dooth al that hym luste & lykyth
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                                  And ek to Ianuarye he goth as lowe
                                
                                  As euere dede a dogge for the bowe
                                
                                  He is so plesaunt on to euery man
                                
                                  ffor craft is al / ho so do it can
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                                  That euery wyȝt is fayn to don hym good
                                
                                  And fully in his ladyis grace he stood
                                
                                  Thus leete I Damyan a-boute his neede
                                
                                  And in myn tale forth I wele procede
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                                  ¶ Some clerkis seyn that felicitee
                                
                                  Stant in delyt / & therfore serteyn he
                                
                                  This noble Ianuarie with al his myȝt
                                
                                  In honeste wys as longith to a knyȝt
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                                  Schop hym to lyue ful delyciously [folio 271a] 
                                
                                  His housynge his a-ray as honestely
                                
                                  To his degre was makyd as a kyng is
                                
                                  A-mongis his othere honeste thyngis

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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 296
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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