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

                                
                                     [6-text p 468] 
                                  
                                  That in a morwe vn-to this May sente hee
                                
                                  Rys vp myn wyf myn loue myn lady free
                                
                                  The turtell voys is herd myn douwe sweete [folio 272b] 
                                
                                  The wyntir is goon with hise reynys weete [[first sweete]] 
                                
                                  Come forth with thynne eyne columbyn
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                                  Hou fayrere been thynne brestis than is wyn
                                
                                  The gardyn is enclosede al a-boute
                                
                                  Come forth myn leue spouse out of doute
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                                  Thow hast me wounded in myn herte o wyf
                                
                                  No spot of the ne knowe I al myn lyf
                                
                                  Come forth & lat vs takyn oure disport
                                
                                  I cheese the for Myn wif & myn confort
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                                  Sweche olde lowede wordys vsede he
                                
                                  On Damyan a signe made sche
                                
                                  That he schulde go bi-forn with his Cliket
                                
                                  Damyan hath thanne openid the weket
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                                  And in he sterte & that in swich manere
                                
                                  That no wyght myghte it wetyn nothir I-here
                                
                                  And stylle he sit vndyr a busch a-noon
                                
                                  This Ianuarie as blynd as is a ston
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                                  With Mayus in his hand no wyȝt mo
                                
                                  In to his frosche gardyn is go
                                
                                  And clapte to the weket sodeynly
                                
                                  Now wyf he seyde heere nys but thow & .I.
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                                  That art the creatour that I best loue
                                
                                  ffor by that lord that sit in heuene a-boue
                                
                                  Leuere I hadde to deyin on a knyf
                                
                                  Than ȝow offendyn trewe deere wyf
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                                  ffor godys sake thynk how I the chees
                                
                                  Nought for no coueytyse douteles
                                
                                  But only for the loue I hadde to the
                                
                                  And thow that I be old & may not se
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                                  Beth to me trewe & I telle ȝow whi
                                
                                  Thre thyngis certis schul ȝe wynne þer-by
                                
                                  ffyrst loue of crist & to ȝoure self honour
                                
                                  And al myn eritage toun & tour

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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 300
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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