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

                                
                                  ¶ And so bifel it on a Saterday
                                
                                  This Carpenter / was goon til Osenay
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                                  And hende Nicholas / and Alison
                                
                                  Acorded been / to this conclusion
                                
                                  That Nicholas / shal shapen hem a wile
                                
                                  This sely Ialous housbonde / to bigile
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                                  And if so be / this game wente aright
                                
                                  She sholde slepen / in his arm al nyght
                                
                                  ffor this was hir desir / and his also [folio 45a] 
                                
                                  And right anoon / with-outen wordes mo
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                                  This Nicholas / no lenger wolde tarie
                                
                                  But dooth ful softe / vn to his chambre carie
                                
                                  Bothe mete and drynke / for a day or tweye
                                
                                  And to hir housbonde / bad hir for to seye
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                                  If þat he axed / after Nicholas
                                
                                  She sholde seye / she nyste wher he was
                                
                                  Of al that day / she seigh hym nought with Iye
                                
                                  She trowed / þat he was in maladye
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                                  ffor / for no cry / hir mayde koude hym calle
                                
                                  He nolde answere / for no thyng þat myghte falle
                                
                                  ¶ This passeth forth / al thilke Saterday
                                
                                  That Nicholas / stille in his chambre lay
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                                  And eet and sleepe / or dide what hym leste
                                
                                  Til Sonday / þat sonne gooth to reste
                                
                                  ¶ This sely Carpenter / hath greet meruaille
                                
                                  Of Nicholas / or what thyng myghte hym aille
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                                  And seyde / I am adrad / by Seint Thomas
                                
                                  It stondeth nat aright with Nicholas
                                
                                  God shilde / þat he deyde sodeynly
                                
                                  This world is now / ful tikel sikerly
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                                  I seigh to day a corps / born to chirche
                                
                                  That now a monday last I seigh hym wirche
                                
                                  Go vp quod he / vn to his knaue anoon
                                
                                  Clepe at his dore / or knokke with a stoon
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                                  Looke how it is / and tel me boldely
                                
                                  ¶ This knaue gooth hym vp / ful sturdily

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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 98
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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