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

                                
                                     [6-text p 462] 
                                  
                                  Att þe after mete ȝe wiþ ȝoure wemmen all
                                
                                  Whan ȝe haue buen in chambre oute of þis hall
                                
                                  þat al ȝe gone to se þis Damyon
                                
                                  Doþe him disporte he is a gentile mon
                                  Line 1924 
                                
                                  And telleþ him þat .I. wil him vesyte
                                
                                  Haue .I. noþinge bot rest me a lyte
                                
                                  [And spede you faste for y wol abide
                                
                                  Til that ye slepe faste be my syde [Harl. 7335 folio 122a] ] [[Not in Sloane 1685, lf 96; or Harl. 1758, lf 83, bk; or Sloane 1686, lf 186, bk; or Reg. 18 C 2, leaf 99; or Harl. 7333, leaf 72.]] 
                                
                                  Nowe wiþ þat worde he gan to him call
                                
                                  A swyer þat was marchal of his hall
                                
                                  And tolde him certeine þinges whatt he wolde
                                
                                  This frische maie haþ streiht her weie yholde
                                  Line 1932 
                                
                                  Wiþ al hire wemmen vnto þis Damyan
                                
                                  Doune be his bed side satt sche þan
                                
                                  Comforteing him as goodly as sche maie
                                
                                  This Damyan whan þat he his tim saie
                                  Line 1936 
                                
                                  In secrete wise his purse and eke his bille [folio 137a] 
                                
                                  In whiche þat he had wreten al his wille
                                
                                  Haþ pute in to hir honde wiþ-outen more
                                
                                  Saue þat he syked wonder sore
                                  Line 1940 
                                
                                  And soþe to hir riht þus seide he
                                
                                  Mercye and þat ȝe discouereþ nouht me
                                
                                  For .I. am dede if þat þis þinge be kidde
                                
                                  This purs haþ sche inne withe hire bosome hidde
                                  Line 1944 
                                
                                  And went hir waie ȝe gette no more of me
                                
                                  Vn-to Ianuer Commen is sche
                                
                                  An on his bedde side sitte ful soft
                                
                                  He takeþ hir and kisseþ hire ful oft
                                  Line 1948 
                                
                                  And leide him doune to slepe and þat anone
                                
                                  Sche feyne hir þat sche most gone
                                
                                  þer as ȝe wote þat euery whight must nede
                                
                                  And whan sche of þis bill haþ taken hede
                                  Line 1952 
                                
                                  Sche rent it al to cloutes atte þe last
                                
                                  And in þe priue softly sche it cast
                                
                                  Who stodieþ nowe bot faire fresche maie
                                
                                  And a-doune be Ianuare sche laie

                                  Line 1956

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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 340
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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