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

                                
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                                  And with hire fyngir signis made sche
                                
                                  That Damyan schulde clymbe vp on a tre
                                
                                  That chargede was with freut & vp he wente
                                
                                  ffor verrayly he knew al hire entente
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                                  And euery signe that sche coude make
                                
                                  Wel bet than Ianuarye hire owene make
                                
                                  ffor in a lettere sche hadde tolde hym al [folio 273b] 
                                
                                  Of this matire how he werchin schal
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                                  And thus I leete hym sitte vp on the pyrye
                                
                                  And Ianuarye & May romynge merie
                                
                                  ¶ Bryȝt was the day & blev the fyrmament
                                
                                  Phebus hath of gold hise stremys doun sent
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                                  To gladyn euery flour with his gladnesse
                                
                                  He was that tyme in gemynys as I gesse
                                
                                  But lytyl from his declinacioun /
                                
                                  Of Cancer Iouis exaltacioun
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                                  And so byfel that bryȝte morwe tyde
                                
                                  That in that gardyn · in the ferthere syde
                                
                                  Pluto that is kyng of fayrye
                                
                                  And manye a lady in his cumpainygnye [[nyg corrected]] 
                                
                                  ffolwynge his wyf the queen Proserpyne
                                
                                  Eche aftyr othir right as ony lyne
                                
                                  Whil that sche gaderede flourys in the mede
                                
                                  In Claudian ȝe may the storijs rede
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                                  How in his gresely carte he hire sette
                                
                                  This kyng of fayrye thanne a-doun hym sette
                                
                                  Vp-on a benche of turuys frosche & greene
                                
                                  And ryght a-non thus seyde he to his queene
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                                  ¶ Myn wyf quod he there may no man sey nay
                                
                                  Thexperience so preuyth euery day
                                
                                  The tresoun / which that wemen doon to man
                                
                                  Ten hunderede thousent tellyn I can
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                                  Notable of ȝoure ontrouthe & brotilnesse
                                
                                  O salamon [[? salomon]]  wys & rycheste of rychesse
                                
                                  fful fyld of sapience & of wordely glorye
                                
                                  fful worthi been thynne wordis to memorie

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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 302
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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