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

                                
                                  ¶ Whan þat the firste cok hath crowe anon [folio 48b] 
                                
                                  Vp rist / this ioly louere Absolon
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                                  And hym arrayeth gay / at point deuys
                                
                                  But first / he cheweth grayn and likorys
                                
                                  To smellen swete / er he hadde kembd his heer
                                
                                  Vnder his tonge / a trewe loue he beer
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                                  ffor ther by / wende he to be gracious
                                
                                  He rometh / to the Carpenters hous
                                
                                  And stille he stant vnder the shot wyndowe
                                
                                  Vn to his brest it raughte / it was so lowe
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                                  And ofte he cogheth / with a semy sown
                                
                                  What do ye hony comb / swete Alisoun
                                
                                  My faire bryd / my swete cynamone
                                
                                  Awaketh lemman myn / and speketh to me
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                                  Wel litel thynken ye / vp on my wo
                                
                                  That for youre loue / I swete ther I go
                                
                                  No wonder is / thogh þat I swelte and swete
                                
                                  I moorne / as dooth a lamb / after the tete
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                                  Ywis lemman / I haue swich loue longyng
                                
                                  That lyk a turtle trewe / is my moornyng
                                
                                  I may nat ete / namoore than a mayde
                                
                                  ¶ Go fro the wyndow / Iakke fool she sayde
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                                  As help me god / it wol nat be com pa me
                                
                                  I loue another / and ellis I were to blame
                                
                                  Wel bet than thee / by Ihesu Absolon
                                
                                  Go forth thy wey / or I wol caste a stoon
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                                  And lat me slepe / a twenty deuele wey
                                
                                  ¶ Allas quod Absolon / and weilawey
                                
                                  That trewe loue / was euere so yuel biset
                                
                                  Thanne kys me / syn þat it may be no bet
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                                  ffor Ihesus loue / and for the loue of me
                                
                                  ¶ Woltow thanne / go thy wey ther-with quod she
                                
                                  ¶ Ye certes lemman / quod this Absolon
                                
                                  ¶ Thanne make thee redy quod she / I come anon
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                                  ¶ This Absolon / doun sette hym on his knees

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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 106
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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