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

                                
                                  Hym thynketh verrailiche / þat he may se
                                
                                  Noes flood / come walwyng as the see
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                                  To drenchen Alison / his hony deere
                                
                                  He wepeth / waileth / maketh sory cheere
                                
                                  He siketh / with ful many a sory swogh
                                
                                  And gooth / and geteth hym a knedyng trogh
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                                  And after / a tubbe and a kymelyn
                                
                                  And pryuely / he sente hem to his In
                                
                                  And heeng hem / in the roof in priuetee
                                
                                  His owene hand / he made laddres thre
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                                  To clymben / by the ronges and the stalkes
                                
                                  Vn to the tubbes / hangyng in the balkes
                                
                                  And hem vitailed / bothe trogh and tubbe
                                
                                  With breed and chese / and good ale in a Iubbe
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                                  Suffisynge right ynogh / as for a day
                                
                                  But er þat he hadde maad / al this array
                                
                                  He sente his knaue and / eek his wenche also
                                
                                  Vp on his nede / to london for to go
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                                  And on the monday / whan it drogh to nyght
                                
                                  He shette his dore / with-outen candel lyght
                                
                                  And dressed alle thyng as it sholde be
                                
                                  And shortly / vp they clomben alle thre
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                                  They seten stille / wel a furlong way
                                
                                  Now Pater noster / clom seyde Nicholay
                                
                                  And clum quod Iohn / and clum seyde Alison
                                
                                  This Carpenter / seyde his deuocion
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                                  And stille he sit and biddeth his prayere
                                
                                  Awaitynge on the reyn / if he it heere
                                
                                  ¶ The dede sleepe / for wery bisynesse
                                
                                  ffil on this Carpenter / right as I gesse
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                                  Aboute corfew tyme / or litel moore
                                
                                  ffor trauaillyng of his goost he groneth soore
                                
                                  And eft he routeth / for his heed myslay [folio 48a] 
                                
                                  ¶ Doun of the laddre / stalketh Nicholay
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                                  And Alison / ful softe adoun she spedde
                                
                                  With-outen wordes mo / they goon to bedde

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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 104
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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