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

                                
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                                  That in a morwe vnto þis may saith he /
                                
                                  Rys vp my wif . my loue . my lady fre /
                                
                                  The turtlis vois . is herd my douue swete
                                
                                  The wynter is goon . with his raynes wete
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                                  Come forth now with . þin eyȝen columbine
                                
                                  how fairer ben þy brestes þan is þe wyne
                                
                                  The gardyn is enclosed al aboute
                                
                                  Com forth my swete spouse out of doute
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                                  Thow hast me wounded in myn hert .o. wyf
                                
                                  No spot of þe knew I in al my lif /
                                
                                  Com forth and let vs / take oure desport /
                                
                                  I ches þe for my wyf and my comfort
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                                  Such olde lewed wordes vsed he /
                                
                                  On damyan a signe made sche [folio 145a] 
                                
                                  That he schuld go . biforn with his cliket
                                
                                  This damyan þan haþ opened þe wiket
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                                  And in he stert and þat in such manere /
                                
                                  That no wight . it mighte see nor heere
                                
                                  And stille he seet vnder a bussch anoon
                                
                                  This Ianuary is blynd as is a stoon
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                                  with Mayus in his hond and no wight mo
                                
                                  In to his freische gardyn is ago
                                
                                  And clappid to þe wiket sodeinly
                                
                                  Now wyf quod he her nys but ȝe and I
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                                  þat art þe creature þat I best loue
                                
                                  For by þat lord þat sit in heuen aboue
                                
                                  leuer ich had to dyen on a knyf
                                
                                  Than þe offende deere trewe wyf
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                                  For goddes sake þenk how I þe chees
                                
                                  Nought for no coueytise douteles
                                
                                  But oonly for þe loue I had to þe
                                
                                  And þough þat I be old and may not se
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                                  Beeth trewe to me and I wol telle ȝow why
                                
                                  Thre þinges certes schul ȝe wynne þer by
                                
                                  First loue of crist and to ȝour self honour
                                
                                  And al myn heritage toun and tour

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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 327
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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