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

                                
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                                  hir answer schal sche haue I vndertake
                                
                                  Let vs no mo wordes her-of make
                                
                                  For soth I wol no lenger ȝow contrarie
                                
                                  ∵ Now let vs turne agayn to Ianuarye
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                                  That in þis gardyn with þis faire may
                                
                                  Syngeþ ful merier þan þe papiniay
                                
                                  Ȝow loue I best and schal and oþer noon
                                
                                  So long about þe aleys is he goon
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                                  Til he was come agaynes þilke pirie
                                
                                  wher as þis damyan sittith ful mirye
                                
                                  On heigh among þe freische leeuys greene
                                
                                  This freissche may þat is so bright and scheene
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                                  Gan for to syke and sayd allas my syde
                                
                                  Now sir quod sche for ought þat may bityde
                                
                                  I most han of þe peres þat I see
                                
                                  Or I moot dye so sore longith me
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                                  To eten of þe smale peris greene
                                
                                  Help for hir loue þat is of heuen queene
                                
                                  I telle ȝow wel a womman in my plyt
                                
                                  May haue to fruyt so gret an appetyt
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                                  Þat sche may deyen . but sche it haue
                                
                                  Allas quod he þat I nad heer a knaue
                                
                                  That couthe clymbe allas allas quod he
                                
                                  For I am blynd . ȝe sire no fors quod sche [folio 147b] 
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                                  But wolde ȝe vouche sauf for goddes sake
                                
                                  The piry inwith ȝour armes for to take
                                
                                  For wel I woot þat ȝe mys-truste me
                                
                                  Than schold I clymbe wel y-nough quod sche
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                                  So I my foot might set vpon ȝour bak
                                
                                  Certes quod he þer on schal be no lak
                                
                                  Might I ȝow helpe wiþ myn herte blood
                                
                                  he stoupith doun and on his bak sche stood
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                                  And caught hir by a twist and vp sche goth
                                
                                  ladys I pray ȝow þat ȝe be not wroþ
                                
                                  I can not glose I am a rude man
                                
                                  And sodeinly anoon þis damyan

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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 332
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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