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

                                
                                  Ther as the Carpenter / is wont to lye
                                
                                  Ther was the reuel / and the melodye
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                                  And thus lyth Alison / and Nicholas
                                
                                  In busynesse of myrthe / and in solas
                                
                                  Til that the belle of laudees / gan to rynge
                                
                                  And freres in the chauncel / gonne synge
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                                  ¶ This parissh clerk this amorous Absolon
                                
                                  That is for loue / alwey so wo bigon
                                
                                  Vp on the monday / was at Osneye
                                
                                  With compaignye / hym to disporte and pleye
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                                  And axed vp on caas / a Cloistrer
                                
                                  fful pryuely / after Iohn the Carpenter
                                
                                  And he drogh hym a part out of the cherche
                                
                                  And seyde I noot I saugh hym here noght werche
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                                  Sith Saterday / I trowe þat he be went
                                
                                  ffor tymber / ther oure Abbot hath hym sent
                                
                                  ffor he is wont for tymber for to go
                                
                                  And dwellen atte graunge / a day or two
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                                  Or ellis / he is at his hous certeyn
                                
                                  Where þat he be / I kan noght soothly seyn
                                
                                  ¶ This Absolon / ful iolyf was and lyght
                                
                                  And thoghte / now is tyme to wake al nyght
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                                  ffor sikerly / I saugh hym noght stirynge
                                
                                  Aboute his dore / syn day bigan to sprynge
                                
                                  So mote I thryue / I shal at Cokkes crowe
                                
                                  fful priuely / knokken at hys wyndowe
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                                  That stant ful lowe / vp on his boures wal
                                
                                  To Alison / now wol I tellen al
                                
                                  My loue longyng . for yit I shal nat mysse
                                
                                  That at the leeste wey / I shal hir kisse
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                                  Som manere confort / shal I haue parfay
                                
                                  My mouth hath icched / al this longe day
                                
                                  That is a signe of kissyng at the leeste
                                
                                  Al nyght me mette eek / I was at a feeste
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                                  Ther-fore I wol go slepe / an houre or tweye
                                
                                  And al the nyght than wol I wake and pleye

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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 105
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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