The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 568] 
                                  
                                  Another day / assaye in myn absence
                                
                                  This disciplyne / and this crafty science
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                                  Lat take another Ounce / quod he tho
                                
                                  Of quyk siluer / with-outen wordes mo
                                
                                  And do ther with / as ye han doon er this
                                
                                  With that oother / which þat now siluer is
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                                  ¶ This preest hym bisieth / in al þat he kan
                                
                                  To doon / as this Chanon / this cursed man
                                
                                  Comanded hym / and faste he blew the fir
                                
                                  ffor to come / to theffect of his desir
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                                  And this Chanon / right in the meene while
                                
                                  Al redy was / the preest eft to bigile
                                
                                  And for a contenance / in his hand he bar
                                
                                  An holwe stikke / taak kepe and be war
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                                  In the ende of which / an Ounce and namoore
                                
                                  Of siluer lemaille / put was as bifore
                                
                                  In his cole / and stopped with wex weel
                                
                                  ffor to kepe In / his lemaille euery deel
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                                  And whil this preest was in his bisynesse
                                
                                  This Chanon / with his stikke gan hym dresse
                                
                                  To hym anon / and his poudre caste In
                                
                                  As he dide er / the deuel / out of his skyn
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                                  Hym terve / I pray to god / for his falshede
                                
                                  ffor he was euere fals / in thoght and dede
                                
                                  And with this stikke / aboue the Crosselet
                                
                                  That was ordeyned / with that false Iet/
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                                  He stired the coles / til relente gan [folio 204a] 
                                
                                  The wex agayn the fir / as euery man?
                                
                                  But it a fool be / woot wel it moot nede
                                
                                  And al that in the stikke was out yede
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                                  And in the crosselet hastily it fel
                                
                                  ¶ Now good sires / what wol ye bet than wel
                                
                                  Whan þat this preest. thus was bigiled ageyn
                                
                                  Supposynge noght but treuthe sooth to seyn
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                                  He was so glad / that I ne kan nat expresse
                                
                                  In no manere / his myrthe and his gladnesse

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 565
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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