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

                                
                                     [6-text p 460] 
                                  
                                  þe slakke skyn aboute his nekke schakeþ
                                
                                  Whil þat he sang so chaunteþ he and crakeþ /
                                
                                  But god wot what may þouȝte in hire herte /
                                
                                  Whan sche him saugh vp sittyng in his scherte
                                  Line 1852 
                                
                                  In his night cappe and wiþ his nekke lene /
                                
                                  Sche preyseþ nouȝt his pleying worþ a bene
                                
                                  þenne seyde he þus my restyng wol I take
                                
                                  Now day is come I may no lenger wake
                                  Line 1856 
                                
                                  And doun he leyd his heed and sleep til prime
                                
                                  And aftirward whan þat he saugh his tyme
                                
                                  vp ryseþ Ianuare but/ freissche may
                                
                                  holt hire chambre vnto þe ferþe day
                                  Line 1860 
                                
                                  As vsage is of wyues for þe beste /
                                
                                  ffor euery labour som tyme mot haue reste
                                
                                  Oþer elles longe may he nouȝt endure
                                
                                  þis is to say no lyues creature
                                  Line 1864 
                                
                                  Be it of fissh or brid or best or man
                                
                                  Now wol I speke of woful dauyan
                                
                                  þat langureþ for loue as ȝe schullen heere
                                
                                  þerfore I speke to him in þis manere
                                  Line 1868 
                                
                                  I say O sely Damyan allas
                                
                                  Answere to þis demaunde as in þis cas
                                
                                  how schalt þou þy lady freisshe may
                                
                                  Telle þy wo sche wole alway say nay
                                  Line 1872 
                                
                                  Eke if þou speke sche wole þy wo bewreye
                                
                                  God be þin helpe I can no bettre seye [folio 153a] 
                                
                                  þis sike damyan in venus fyre
                                
                                  So brenneþ þat he deyeþ for desire
                                  Line 1876 
                                
                                  ffor which he putte his liff/ in aduenture
                                
                                  No lenger might he in þis wise endure
                                
                                  But priuyly a penner gan he borwe
                                
                                  And in a lettre wrot he alle his sorwe
                                  Line 1880 
                                
                                  In maner of a complaynt oþer a lay
                                
                                  vnto þis fair and freissche lady may
                                
                                  And in a purs of silk heng on his scherte
                                
                                  he haþ y-put and leyd it/ at his herte/

                                  Line 1884

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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 338
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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