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

                                
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                                  Gan pullen vp the smok/ and yn he throng/. [¶ A gret tente he þrest yn and a long.Sche seide it was þe meriest fit.That euyr in hir lyue sche was at yit.Mi lordis tente sche seide serueþ me not þus.He foldith twifolde bi swete Ihesus.He maie not swyue worth a leke.And yet he is/ fulle gentille and fulle meke.This/ is leuyr to me than Euensong.]  [[Harl. 1758]] 
                                
                                  And whan that Pluto saugh this gret wrong.
                                
                                  To Ianuarye he yaf his sight a-gayne.
                                
                                  [And made hym seen as wel as euere he myghte
                                
                                  And whan he thus had caght his sighte agayn [Harl. 7335 folio 128a] ]
                                
                                  Ne was ther/ neuyr/ man of thyng so fayne.
                                
                                  But on his wife his thought was euyr/ mo.
                                
                                  Vp to the tre he kest his yȝen two.
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                                  And sigh that Damyan his wife had dressed.
                                
                                  In whiche maner/ it may not ben expressed.
                                
                                  But if I wolde speke vncurteisly.
                                
                                  And vp he yaf a roryng/ and a cry.
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                                  As doth the modir/ when the childe schall dye.
                                
                                  Out help allas harrow he gan crye. [[2 spurious lines after l. 2366.]]  [¶ ffor sorow almost he gan to dye. That his/ wif was/ swyued in þe perye.] 
                                
                                  O strong/ lady stoure what dost thou.
                                
                                  And sche answerith sir/ what eileth you.
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                                  Haue paciens and reson in your/ mynde.
                                
                                  I haue you holpen on bothe your/ yȝen blynde.
                                
                                  Vp perill of my soule I schall not lyen.
                                
                                  As me was taught to hele with your yȝen.
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                                  Was no thyng/ bet/ for to make you se.
                                
                                  Than strougle with a man vp on a tre.
                                
                                  God woot I dide it in full good entente.
                                
                                  Strogle quod he ye algate yn it wente. [[4 spurious lines after l. 2376.]]  [[As] stif/ and rounde as/ ony belle. It was/ no wondir/ þouȝ hir beli swelle. The smok on his/ brest laie to seche. And euer me thought he poynted on þe breche.] 
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                                  God yeue you bothe on schames deth to dien.
                                
                                  He swyued the I saugh it with myn yen.
                                
                                  And ellis be I hangid bi the hals.
                                
                                  Than is quod sche the medicyn fals./
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                                  ffor certeynly if that ye myghtyn se.
                                
                                  Ye wolde not say tho wordis. vn-to me.
                                
                                  Ye han som glymsyng/ and no perfit/ sight.
                                
                                  I se quod he as well as euyr/ I myght/.
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                                  Thanked be god with bothe myn yȝen two.
                                
                                  And be my trouthe me thought/ he dide the so.
                                
                                  Ye mase mase good sir / quod sche.
                                
                                  this thank / haue I for I haue made you se.

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

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