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

                                
                                  fful wel acordant to his giternynge
                                
                                  This Carpenter awook and herde hym synge
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                                  And spak vn to his wyf / and seyde anon
                                
                                  What Alison / herestow noght Absolon
                                
                                  That chaunteth thus / vnder oure boures wal [folio 44b] 
                                
                                  ¶ And she / answerde hir housbonde / ther with al
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                                  Yis god woot Iohn / I here it euerydel
                                
                                  This passeth forth / what wol ye bet than wel
                                
                                  ffro day to day / this ioly Absolon
                                
                                  So woweth hire / þat hym is wo bigon
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                                  He waketh al the nyght and al the day
                                
                                  He kembed his lokkes brode / and made hym gay
                                
                                  He woweth hire by meenes / and brocage
                                
                                  And swoor / he wolde been hir owene page
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                                  He syngeth brokkyng as a nyghtyngale
                                
                                  He sente hir pyment Meeth / and spiced Ale
                                
                                  And wafres pipyng hoot / out of the gleede
                                
                                  And for she was of towne / he profred meede
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                                  ffor som folk / wol be wonnen for richesse
                                
                                  And som for strokes / and som for gentilesse [Vnde Ouidius Ictibus Agrestis.] 
                                
                                  Som tyme to shewe / his lightnesse and maistrye
                                
                                  He pleyeth Herodes / vp on a scaffold hye
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                                  But what auailleth hym / as in this cas
                                
                                  She loueth so / this hende Nicholas
                                
                                  That Absolon / may blowe the Bukkes horn
                                
                                  He ne hadde for his labour / but a scorn
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                                  And thus she maketh / Absolon hir Ape
                                
                                  And al his ernest / turneth til a Iape
                                
                                  fful sooth is this prouerbe / it is no lye
                                
                                  Men seith right thus / alwey the neighe slye
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                                  Maketh / the ferre leeue to be looth
                                
                                  ffor thogh þat Absolon / be wood or wrooth
                                
                                  By cause / þat he fer was from hir sighte
                                
                                  This neighe Nicholas / stood in his lighte
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                                  ¶ Now bere thee wel / thow hende Nicholas
                                
                                  ffor Absolon / may waille / and synge allas

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 97
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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