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 ...

                                
                                  I ȝeue it ȝow / maketh chartres as ȝow list
                                
                                  This shal be don / to-morwe or the sonne rist
                                
                                  So wysly god my soule / brynge in-to blysse
                                
                                  I preye ȝow first / in couenaunt ȝe me kisse
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                                  And though I be ielous / wyte me nought
                                
                                  Ȝe ben so depe / enprented in my thought
                                
                                  That whan I considre / ȝoure beaute
                                
                                  And ther-with-al / the vnlikly age of me
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                                  I may nought certes / though I shulde deye
                                
                                  ffor-bere to ben / oute of ȝoure companye
                                
                                  ffor verray loue / this is with-outen doute
                                
                                  Now kisse we wyf / and late vs rome aboute
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                                  ¶ This fresshe May / whan she theise wordes herd
                                
                                  Benygnely / to Ianuarie she answerd
                                
                                  But first and forward / she bygan to wepe
                                
                                  ¶ I haue quod she / god wot / a soule to kepe
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                                  As wel as ȝe / and also myn honour
                                
                                  And of my wyfhod / thilke tendre flour
                                
                                  Which that I haue assured / in ȝoure hond
                                
                                  Whan that the prest / to ȝow my body bond
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                                  Wherfore I wyl answere / in this manere
                                
                                  By the leue of ȝow / that ben my lord so dere
                                
                                  I preye to god / that neuere dawe the day
                                
                                  That I ne sterue / as foule as a womman may
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                                  If euere I do / vn-to my kyn / that shame
                                
                                  Or ellis if that I / enpeire so my name
                                
                                  That I be fals / and if I do that lak
                                
                                  Do stripe me / and put me in a sak
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                                  And in the nexte Ryuer / do me drenche
                                
                                  I am a gentil womman / and no wenche
                                
                                  Why speke ȝe thus / but men ben euere vntrewe
                                
                                  And wommen han of ȝow / repref ay newe
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                                  Ȝe conne noon other countenaunce / I leue
                                
                                  But speke to vs / as of vntrust and repreue
                                
                                  And with that word / she saw where Damyan
                                
                                  Sat in a Bussh / and coughe she bygan

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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 302
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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