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

                                  
                                       [6-text p 475] 
                                    
                                    Allas quod sche that euere I was so kynde
                                  
                                    Now dame quod he lat al passe out of mynde
                                  
                                    Come doun myn lyf & If I haue myssayd
                                  
                                    God helpe me so as I am euele a-payid
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                                    But by myn fadyr soule I wende haue seyn
                                  
                                    How that this Damyen hadde by the leyn
                                  
                                    And that thyn smok hadde leyn vp-on his brest
                                  
                                    Ȝa sere quod sche ȝe may wene [[ne altered]]  as ȝow lyst
                                  
                                    But sere a man that wakyth out of slep
                                  
                                    He may not sodeynly takyn kep
                                  
                                    Vp-on a thyng ne seen it parfytly
                                  
                                    Til that he be a-dawed verrayly
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                                    Rygh so a man that longe hath blynd ybe
                                  
                                    Ne may not sodeynly so weel I-see
                                  
                                    ffyrst whan his syȝte is come newe ageyn
                                  
                                    As he that hath a day or too I-seyn [[1 leaf out of Camb. MS]] 
                                  
                                    [Tylle þat youre siȝt y-stabled by a while [Sloane MS 1685 folio 102b] 
                                  
                                    þere may fulle many a siȝt you be-gyle
                                  
                                    By ware I prey you for by heuen kynge
                                  
                                    Fulle many a man weneth to see a thynge
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                                    And hit ys all an oþere þan hit semyth
                                  
                                    he mysse conceyueth mysse demeth
                                  
                                    And with þat worde she lepe doun of þat tre
                                  
                                    Thys Ianuarye who was glade but she
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                                    he kyssith and clypythe hir fulle ofte
                                  
                                    And on hir wombe he strokethe hir fulle softe
                                  
                                    And to hys palys home he hathe hir ladde
                                  
                                    Nowe gode men I prey you to be glad
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                                    Thus endethe here my tale of Ianuarye
                                  
                                    God blesse vs and his modir/ Seynt Mary Amen] [[Sloane 1685 extract ends]]

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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 307
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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