The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  To haue his wif alloone trustith me
                                
                                  Ȝe schul not please hir fully ȝeres þre
                                
                                  This is to say to doon hir ful plesaunce
                                
                                  A wyf axith ful many an obseruaunce
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                                  I pray ȝow þat ȝe be not euel apayd
                                
                                  wel quod þis Ianuary and hastow sayd
                                
                                  Straw for þy senec and for þy prouerbis
                                
                                  I coueyte nought a panyer ful of herbes
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                                  Of scole termes wiser men þan þow /
                                
                                  As I haue sayd assenten her right now
                                
                                  Vnto my purpose. placebo what say ȝe
                                
                                  I say it is a cursed man quod he /
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                                  That lettith matrimoigne sicurly
                                
                                  And with þat word þay rysen vp sodeinly
                                
                                  And ben assented fully þat he scholde
                                
                                  Be weddid whan him lust. and wher he wolde
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                                  The fantasy. and þe curious busynesse
                                
                                  Fro day to day. gan in þe soule impresse
                                
                                  Of Ianuary aboute his mariage
                                
                                  Many a fair schap and many a fair visage [folio 137b] 
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                                  Ther passith þorugh his herte night by night
                                
                                  As who so took a mirrour polissched bright
                                
                                  And set it in a comun market place
                                
                                  Than schuld he se. many a figure pace
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                                  By his mirour and in þe same wise
                                
                                  Gan Ianuary in his þought deuyse
                                
                                  Of maydens which þat duellid him bisyde
                                
                                  he wist not where þat he might abyde
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                                  For þough þat oon haue a beaute in hir face
                                
                                  Anoþer stant so in þe poeples grace
                                
                                  For hir sadnesse and hir benignite
                                
                                  That of þe poeple grettest vois had sche
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                                  And som were riche and hadde badde name
                                
                                  But naþeles bitwix ernest and game
                                
                                  he atte last/ appoynted him anoon
                                
                                  And let al oþer fro his herte goon

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 311
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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