The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 456] 
                                  
                                  In wisdome and treuthe of mariage
                                
                                  And seide his orisons as his vsage
                                
                                  And crowched hem and badde god scholde hem blesse
                                
                                  And maad al sekur .I.-nouhe wiþ holynesse
                                  Line 1708 
                                
                                  Thus buen þei wedded wiþ solempnite
                                
                                  And att þe feste sitteþ he and sche
                                
                                  Wiþ oþer worþi folke vpon þe dese
                                
                                  Al ful of Ioye and blisse is þe palese
                                  Line 1712 
                                
                                  An ful of instrumentes and of vitaile
                                
                                  Þe most deinteuous of al ytaile
                                
                                  Be-forne hem of Instrumentes whiche soune
                                
                                  That Orpheus. ne of Phebes Ampheoune
                                  Line 1716 
                                
                                  Ne maad neuer suche a Melodye
                                
                                  And att euery cours cam loude Menstralcie
                                
                                  That neuer Ioab tromped for to here
                                
                                  Neiþer Theodomas ȝit halfe so clere
                                  Line 1720 
                                
                                  And Thebes whan þe Cite was in doubte
                                
                                  Bachus þe wyne hem schenkeþ al a-boute.
                                
                                  And venus lauheþ on euery wyht [folio 134b] 
                                
                                  For Ianuar was becom hir knyht
                                  Line 1724 
                                
                                  And wolde boþe assaien his corage
                                
                                  In liberte and eke in Mariage
                                
                                  And wiþ hir fire-bronde wiþ hir honde aboute
                                
                                  Daunceþ to-fore þe bride al aboute
                                  Line 1728 
                                
                                  An certeinly .I. dar wele seie riht þis
                                
                                  Emyneus þat god of weddinge is
                                
                                  Sawe neuer in his lif so mery a wedded man
                                
                                  Halde þou þi pes þou poet Marcean
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                                  Þat writest vs þat ilke weddinge mury
                                
                                  Of hire Philologie. and of Mercury
                                
                                  And of þe songe þat þe Muses songe
                                
                                  So smale as eke þi penne and eke þi tonge
                                  Line 1736 
                                
                                  For to discriuen of þis Mariage
                                
                                  Whan tender ȝouþe haþe wedded stoupeinge age
                                
                                  Ther is suche murþe þat it maie nouht be writ
                                
                                  Assaieþ it ȝoure self þan maie ȝe wit

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 334
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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