The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  The slak skyn / a-boute his nekke shaketh
                                
                                  While that he song / so chaunteth he and craketh [folio 113a] 
                                
                                  And god wot / what that May / thought in hire hert
                                
                                  Whan she him saw / vpsittyng in his shert
                                  Line 1852 
                                
                                  In his nyght-cappe / and with his nekke lene
                                
                                  She preyseth nat / his pleiyng worth a bene
                                
                                  Than seide he thus / my reste wol I take
                                
                                  Now day is come / I may no lengere wake
                                  Line 1856 
                                
                                  And doun he leid his hede / and slepe til prime
                                
                                  And afterward / whan that he saw his tyme
                                
                                  vp riseth Ianuarie / but fresshe May
                                
                                  held hire chaumbre / vn-to the ferthe day
                                  Line 1860 
                                
                                  As vsage is / of wyues / for the beste
                                
                                  ffor euery labour sumtyme / mote haue reste
                                
                                  Or ellis longe may he / nat endure
                                
                                  This is to seyn / no lyues creature
                                  Line 1864 
                                
                                  Be it of fyssh or bryd / or beest or man
                                
                                  Now wol I speke / of wooful Damyan
                                
                                  That langwyssheth for loue / as ȝe shuln heere
                                
                                  Therfore I speke to him / in this manere
                                  Line 1868 
                                
                                  I seide / o seely Damyan / allas [¶ Auctor] 
                                
                                  Answere to myn demaunde / as in this cas
                                
                                  how shalt þou / to thy lady fressh may
                                
                                  Telle thy woo / she wyl alwey sey nay
                                  Line 1872 
                                
                                  Eke if þou speke / she wyl thy woo be-wrey
                                
                                  God be thyn helpe / I can no betyr sey
                                
                                  This syke Damyan / in venus fyre
                                
                                  So brenneth / that he deyeth for desyre
                                  Line 1876 
                                
                                  ffor which he put his lyf / in auenture
                                
                                  No lengere myght he / in this wyse endure
                                
                                  But preuyly a pennere / gan he borwe
                                
                                  And in a lettre wrot he / al his sorwe
                                  Line 1880 
                                
                                  In manere of a compleynt / or a lay
                                
                                  Vn-to this fair / fressh May
                                
                                  And in a purs of sylk / heng oon his sherte
                                
                                  he hath it put / and leide it at his herte

                                  Line 1884

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 293
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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