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

                                
                                     [6-text p 457] 
                                  
                                  If þat .I. lakke or none in þis matiere
                                
                                  Mayus þat siht wiþ so benigne a chiere
                                
                                  Hire to be-holde it semed faire
                                
                                  Qween estier loked neuer wiþ suche an eye
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                                  On assure so meke a loke haþe sche
                                
                                  .I. maie ȝoue nouȝt deuise al here aboute
                                
                                  Bot þus muche of hir beute tell .I. maie
                                
                                  That sche was like þe briht morwe of maie
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                                  Fulfillede of beaute and plesance
                                
                                  This Ianuar is rauisshed in a traunce
                                
                                  And att euery time he loked on hire face
                                
                                  Bot in his herte he gan hire to manace
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                                  þat he þat nyht in armes wolde hire streine
                                
                                  Harder þan euer paris dide Elyne
                                
                                  Bot naþeles ȝit had he grete pite
                                
                                  þat þilke nyht offenden hir must he
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                                  And þouht Alas o tender creature
                                
                                  Now wold god ȝe myht wele endure
                                
                                  Al my corage it is so scharpe and kene
                                
                                  .I. am a-gaste ȝe schollen it nouht sustene
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                                  Bot god for-bede þat .I. ded al my myht
                                
                                  Nowe wolde god þat it were waxen nyht
                                
                                  And þat þe nyht wolde lasten euer mo
                                
                                  .I. wolde þat al þis peple war a-go
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                                  And fynaly he doþ al his laboure [folio 135a] 
                                
                                  As he best myht saueinge his honoure
                                
                                  To haste hem fro þe mete in subtile wise
                                
                                  The time cam þat reson was to rise
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                                  And after þat men daunce and drinke fast
                                
                                  And spices al aboute þe house þei cast
                                
                                  An ful of ioy and blisse is euery man
                                
                                  All bot a swyere þat hiht Damyan
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                                  Whiche karue to-for þe knyht many daie
                                
                                  He was so rauisshed on his lady maie
                                
                                  Þat for þe verraie peine he wex nere wode
                                
                                  Almoste he suelte and swouned þere he stode

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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 335
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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