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

                                
                                     [6-text p 467] 
                                  
                                  As to his purpos of no suche matier
                                
                                  Bot if þat Ianuare most it here
                                
                                  þat had on honde vpon hire euermoo
                                
                                  And neuer les be writeinge to and fro
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                                  An priue signes wist he what sche ment [folio 139a] 
                                
                                  And sche knewe of þe syne of his entent
                                
                                  O Ianuare what myht þe availe
                                
                                  þouhe þou myht see as fer as schippes saile
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                                  For also good is a blynde deceyued be
                                
                                  As to be deceiued whan a man may se
                                
                                  Lo Argus whiche þat hadd . an .C. yene
                                
                                  For all þat euere he couþe poure oþir prine
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                                  Ȝit was he blent and god wote so be moo
                                
                                  That wenene wisly þat it is nouht soo
                                
                                  Passe ouer is an ese and seie no more
                                
                                  This fresche maie of whiche .I. spak of ȝore
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                                  In warme wax haþe emprintid þis cliket
                                
                                  Þat Ianuare bare of þat smale wiket
                                
                                  Be whiche into his gardine oft he went
                                
                                  And Damyan þat knewe hire entent
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                                  The cleket counterfetid priuely
                                
                                  There is no more to seie bot hastely
                                
                                  Some wonder be his cleket scha[l] be-tide
                                
                                  Whiche ȝe schollen here if ȝe wollen abide
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                                  O noble Ouide soþe seist þou god woote
                                
                                  What sleyht is it þouhe it be longe and hote
                                
                                  That he nil finde it oute in somme manere
                                
                                  By Pyramus and thesbe maie men lere.
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                                  Thouhe þei were kepped ful longe treite ouer al
                                
                                  Thei biene acorded rowneinge þoruhe a wal
                                
                                  There is no whight couþe han founde oute suche a sleihte
                                
                                  Bot nowe to purpos ar þat daies eyhte
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                                  Were passe or þe Moneþ of Iuyl befyll
                                
                                  Þat Ianuare haþ cauht so grete a will
                                
                                  Thoruhe engine of his wife him for to pleie
                                
                                  In his Gardine and no whiht bot þei tweie

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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 345
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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