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

                                
                                  That if thow wreye me / thow shalt be wood
                                
                                  ¶ Nay Crist forbede it / for his holy blood
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                                  Quod tho this sely man / I nam no labbe
                                
                                  And thogh I seye / I nam nat lief to gabbe
                                
                                  Sey what thow wolt I shal it neuere telle
                                
                                  To child ne wyf / by hym that harwed helle
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                                  ¶ Now Iohn quod Nicholas / I wol noght lye
                                
                                  I haue yfounde / in myn Astrologye
                                
                                  As I haue looked / in the moone bright
                                
                                  That now a monday next at quarter nyght
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                                  Shal falle a reyn / and that so wilde and wood
                                
                                  That half so greet was neuere Nowels flood
                                
                                  This world he seyde / in lasse than in an hour
                                
                                  Shal al be dreynt so hidous is the shour
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                                  Thus shal man-kynde drenche / and lese hir lyf
                                
                                  ¶ This Carpenter answerde / allas my wyf
                                
                                  And shal she drenche / allas myn Alisoun
                                
                                  ffor sorwe of this / he fil almoost adoun
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                                  And seyde / is ther no remedie in this cas
                                
                                  ¶ Why yis for gode / quod hende Nicholas
                                
                                  If thow wolt werken / after loore and reed [folio 46b] 
                                
                                  Thow mayst noght werken / after thyn owene heed
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                                  ffor thus seith Salomon / þat was ful trewe
                                
                                  Werk al by conseil / and thow shalt noght rewe
                                
                                  And if thow werken wolt by good consayl
                                
                                  I vndertake / with-outen mast or sayl
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                                  Yit shal I saue hire / and thee and me
                                
                                  Hastow nat herd / how saued was Noe
                                
                                  Whan þat oure lord / hadde warned hym biforn
                                
                                  That al the world / with water sholde be lorn
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                                  ¶ Yis quod this Carpenter / ful yore ago
                                
                                  ¶ Hastow nat herd / quod Nicholas also
                                
                                  The sorwe of Noe / with his felaweshipe
                                
                                  Er þat he myghte / gete his wyf to shipe
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                                  Hym hadde leuere / I dar wel vndertake
                                
                                  At thilke tyme / than alle hise wetheres blake

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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 101
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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