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

                                
                                  In to the floor / the dore fil anoon
                                
                                  This Nicholas / sat ay as stille as stoon
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                                  And euere caped vp / in to the Eyr
                                
                                  This Carpenter / wende he were in despeyr
                                
                                  And hente hym / by the sholdres myghtily
                                
                                  And shook hym harde / and cryde spitously
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                                  What Nicholay / what how looke adoun
                                
                                  Awake / and thenk on Cristes passioun
                                
                                  I crouche thee / from Elues and fro wightes
                                
                                  Ther-with the nyght spel / seyde he anon rightes
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                                  On foure halues / of the hous aboute
                                
                                  And on the thresshfold / on the dore with-oute
                                
                                  Ihesu crist and Seint Benedight
                                
                                  Blesse this hous / from euery wikked wight
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                                  ffor the nyghtesuerye / the white Pater noster
                                
                                  Where wentestow / seinte Petres suster
                                
                                  And at the laste / this hende Nicholas [folio 46a] 
                                
                                  Gan for to sike soore / and seyde allas
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                                  Shal al the world / be lost eft soones now
                                
                                  ¶ This Carpenter answerde / what seistow
                                
                                  What thenk / on god / as we doon men þat swynke
                                
                                  ¶ This Nicholas answerde / fecche me drynke
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                                  And after / wol I speke in pryuetee
                                
                                  Of certein thyng / þat toucheth me and thee
                                
                                  I wol telle it / noon oother man certayn
                                
                                  ¶ This Carpenter gooth doun / and comth agayn
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                                  And broghte of myghty ale / a large quart
                                
                                  And whan þat eech of hem / hadde dronke his part
                                
                                  This Nicholas / his dore faste shette
                                
                                  And doun the Carpenter / by hym he sette
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                                  And seyde / Iohn / myn hoost lief and deere
                                
                                  Thou shalt vp on thy trouthe / swere me heere
                                
                                  That to no wight thou shalt this conseil wreye
                                
                                  ffor it is cristes conseil / that I seye
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                                  And if thou telle it man thou art forlore
                                
                                  ffor this vengeaunce / thow shalt haue ther fore

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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 100
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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