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

                                
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                                  The slake skynne aboute his necke sshakeþ
                                
                                  While þat he songe so chaunteþ he and crakeþ
                                
                                  Bot god woote watt maie ȝouþe in hire hert [folio 136a] 
                                
                                  Whan sche him sawhe vpsitinge in his schert
                                  Line 1852 
                                
                                  In hys nyht cappe and wiþ his nek lene
                                
                                  Sche preiseþ nouht his pleyinge worþe a bene
                                
                                  Than saide he þus Mi ristinge wil .I. take
                                
                                  Nowe daie is comme .I. maie no lenger wake
                                  Line 1856 
                                
                                  And doune he laide his hed and slept to prime
                                
                                  And afterward whan þat he sawhe his time
                                
                                  Vpriseþ Ianuer bot þe frisshe maie
                                
                                  Holdeþ hir chambre vnto þe ferþe daie
                                  Line 1860 
                                
                                  As vsages is for wives for þe best
                                
                                  For euery loboure som time mote haue rest
                                
                                  Oþere elles longe maie he nouht endure
                                
                                  This is to seie no liues creature
                                  Line 1864 
                                
                                  Be it of fisshe or birde or beste or man
                                
                                  ¶ Nowe wil .I. speke of woful Danyan
                                
                                  þat longuriþ for loue as ȝe schol here
                                
                                  The for .I. speke to him in þis manere
                                  Line 1868 
                                
                                  .I. seye o cely Damyan alas
                                
                                  Ansewer to þis demaunde as in þis cas
                                
                                  How schal tow to þi lady fresshe maie
                                
                                  Tel þi woo sche wil al weie seie naie
                                  Line 1872 
                                
                                  Eke if þou speke sche wil þi wo be-wreye
                                
                                  God bu þin helpe .I. can no better seie
                                
                                  This seke Damyan in venus fire
                                
                                  So berneþ þat he deyeþ for desire
                                  Line 1876 
                                
                                  For whiche he put his lif in aduenture
                                
                                  Ne lenger myht he in þis wise endure
                                
                                  Bot priuely a pennere gan he borwe
                                
                                  And in a lettre wrote he al his sorwe
                                  Line 1880 
                                
                                  In manere of a compleint oþere a laie
                                
                                  Vnto þis faire and fresshe lady maie
                                
                                  And in a purse of silke honge on his schert
                                
                                  He haþ it put and leide it att his hert

                                  Line 1884

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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 338
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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