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

                                
                                  And at the chambre dore / whil þat he stood
                                
                                  He cryde and knokked / as þat he were wood
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                                  What how / what do ye maister Nicholay
                                
                                  How may ye slepen / al the longe day
                                
                                  But al for noght he herde nat a word
                                
                                  An hole he foond / ful lowe vp on a bord
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                                  Ther as the Cat / was wont In for to crepe
                                
                                  And at that hole / he looked In ful depe
                                
                                  And atte laste / he hadde of hym a sighte
                                
                                  ¶ This Nicholas / sat euere capyng vp-righte
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                                  As he hadde kiked / on the newe moone
                                
                                  Adown he gooth / and tolde his maister soone
                                
                                  In what array / he saw this ilke man [folio 45b] 
                                
                                  ¶ This Carpenter / to blessen hym bigan
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                                  And seyde / help vs seinte ffrideswyde
                                
                                  A man woot litel / what hym shal bityde
                                
                                  This man is falle / with his Astromye
                                
                                  In som woodnesse / or in som Agonye
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                                  I thoghte ay wel / how þat it sholde be
                                
                                  Men sholde noght knowe / of goddes priuetee
                                
                                  Ye blissed be alwey / a lewed man
                                
                                  That noght but oonly his bileue kan
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                                  So ferde another clerk with Astromye
                                
                                  He walked in the feeldes / for to prye
                                
                                  Vp on the sterres / what ther sholde bifalle
                                
                                  Til he was / in a Marle pit yfalle
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                                  He saw nat that but yet by Seint Thomas
                                
                                  Me reweth sore / for hende Nicholas
                                
                                  He shal be rated / of his studiyng
                                
                                  If þat I may / by Ihesus heuene kyng
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                                  Get me a staf / þat I may vnder-spore
                                
                                  Whil þat thow Robyn / heuest vp the dore
                                
                                  He shal out of his studyyng as I gesse
                                
                                  And to the chambre dore / he gan hym dresse
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                                  His knaue / was a strong carl / for the nones
                                
                                  And by the haspe / he haaf it vp atones

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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 99
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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