The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  As þat sche bare daunsyng in hir hand
                                
                                  So freisshe sche was and þerto so likand [[spurious]] 
                                
                                  And to his bed he went him hastily
                                
                                  Nomore of him at þis tyme speke I
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                                  But þere I lete him weepe ynough and pleyne
                                
                                  Till freissche may wil rewen on his peyne
                                
                                  ¶ O perilous fyr þat in þe bedstraw brediþ
                                
                                  O famuler foo þat his seruise beediþ
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                                  O seruant traytour fals holy hewe
                                
                                  I-like to þe neddre sleyȝ and in Bosom vntrewe
                                
                                  God schilde vs alle fro ȝoure iniquitance
                                
                                  O Ianuare drunken in plesaunce
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                                  O mariage see how þine Damyan
                                
                                  þin oughne squyer and þyn borne man
                                
                                  Entendiþ to do þe vylenye
                                
                                  God graunte þe þin harmly foo to aspye
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                                  ffor in þis world nys worse pestylence
                                
                                  Than homly foo alday in þy presence
                                
                                  Parfourmed haþ þis deuyn day his ark dyurne
                                
                                  No lenger may þe body of him soiourne
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                                  The Orisowte as in þat latitude
                                
                                  Night wiþ his mantel þat is so derk & rude
                                
                                  Gan for to sprede þe mysperye aboute
                                
                                  ffor which departed is þe lusty route
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                                  ffor Ianuare wiþ þank on euery syde
                                
                                  home to here houses lustily þei ryde / [folio 152a] 
                                
                                  þer as þey don here þinges as hem leste
                                
                                  And whanne þay seye her tyme gon to reste
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                                  Sone after þat þis hastyf Ianuare
                                
                                  Wol go to bedde he wol no lengere care
                                
                                  he drynkeþ ypocras clarre and vernage
                                
                                  Of spices hote to encresen his corage
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                                  And many a letuare hadde he ful fyn
                                
                                  Suche as þe cursed monk daun Constantyn
                                
                                  haþ writen in his book of coytu
                                
                                  To eten hem alle he nas no þing eschewe

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 336
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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