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

                                
                                  And thou wolt seyn / hail maister Nicholay
                                
                                  Good morwe / I see thee wel / for it is day
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                                  And thanne shal we be lordes al oure lyf/
                                
                                  Of al the world / as Noe and his wyf/
                                
                                  But of o thyng / I warne thee ful right
                                
                                  Be wel auysed / on that ilke nyght
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                                  That we been entred / in to shippes bord
                                
                                  That noon of vs / ne speke noght a word
                                
                                  Ne clepe ne crye / but been in his prayere
                                
                                  ffor it is / goddes owene heste deere
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                                  Thy wyf and thow / mote hange fer atwynne
                                
                                  ffor þat bitwix yow / shal be no synne
                                
                                  Namoore in lookyng / than ther shal in dede
                                
                                  This ordinaunce is seyd / go god thee spede
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                                  Tomorwe at nyght whan men been alle aslepe
                                
                                  In to oure knedyng tubbes / wol we crepe
                                
                                  And sitten there / abidyng goddes grace
                                
                                  Go now thy wey / I haue no lenger space
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                                  To make of this / no lenger sermonyng
                                
                                  Men seyn thus / seend the wise and sey no thyng
                                
                                  Thow art so wys / it nedeth thee nat teche
                                
                                  Go saue oure lyf and that I thee biseche
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                                  ¶ This sely Carpenter / gooth forth his wey
                                
                                  fful ofte he seyde / allas and weylaway
                                
                                  And to his wyf / he tolde his priuetee
                                
                                  And she was war / and knew it bet than he
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                                  What al this queynte cast was for to seye
                                
                                  But nathelees / she ferde as she wolde deye
                                
                                  And seyde allas / go forth thy wey anon [folio 47b] 
                                
                                  Help vs to scape / or we been dede echon
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                                  I am thy trewe / verray wedded wyf
                                
                                  Go deere spouse / and help to saue oure lyf
                                
                                  ¶ Lo which a greet thyng / is affeccion
                                
                                  Men may dyen / of ymaginacion
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                                  So depe / may impression be take
                                
                                  This sely Carpenter / bigynneth quake

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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 103
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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