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

                                
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                                  He made a gardyn wallede al wyth stoon
                                
                                  So fayr a gardyn woot I nowher noon
                                
                                  ffor out of doute I verrayly suppose
                                
                                  That he that wrot the romauns of the rose
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                                  Ne coude of it the beute weel deuyse
                                
                                  Ne priapus ne myȝte nat suffyse
                                
                                  Thow he be god of gardynys for to telle
                                
                                  The beaute of the gardyn & the welle
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                                  That stood vndyr a laurer al wey grene
                                
                                  fful ofte tyme he pluto & his queene
                                
                                  Proserpen & al hire fayrye
                                
                                  Disportyn hem & makyn melodye
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                                  A-boute that welle & dauncedyn as men tolde
                                
                                  This noble knyght this Ianuarye the olde
                                
                                  Swich deynte hath [[h inserted: i altered]]  // in it to walke & pleye
                                
                                  That he wele no wyȝt suffere to bere þe keye
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                                  But he hym self / for of the smale wiket
                                
                                  He bar alwey of syluyr a Clyket
                                
                                  Of which whan that hym lykith he it on-schette
                                
                                  And whan he wolde paye his wyf hire dette
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                                  In somyr sesoun thidyr wolde he go
                                
                                  And May his wyf & no wyȝt but they two
                                
                                  And thyng that were nat doon a bedde
                                
                                  He in the gardyn parfornede hem & spedde
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                                  And in this wyse manye a merye day
                                
                                  Lyuede this Ianuarye & frossche May
                                
                                  But wordely ioye may non alwey dure
                                
                                  To Ianuarie ne to non creature
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                                  ¶ O sodeyn hap o fortune onstable
                                
                                  Lyk to the scorpioun so deceyuable
                                
                                  That flateris wythyn hed whan þou wolt stynge
                                
                                  Thyn tayl is deeth thourgh thyn enuenymynge
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                                  O bretil Ioye o sweete venym queynte
                                
                                  O Monstre that so subtyly canst peynte
                                
                                  Tynne ȝiftys vndyr colour of stedefastnesse [folio 271b] 
                                
                                  That thow disseuyst bothe moore & lesse

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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 297
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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