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

                                
                                  He auntred hym / and has his nedes sped
                                
                                  And I lye / as a draf sak / in my bed
                                
                                  And whan this iape / is told another day
                                
                                  I sal ben halden / a daf a Cokenay
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                                  I wil arise and auntre it by my fayth
                                
                                  Vnhardy is vnsely / thus men sayth
                                
                                  ¶ And vp he roos / and softely he wente
                                
                                  Vn to the Cradel / and in his hand it hente
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                                  And baar it softe / vn to his beddes feet
                                
                                  Soone after this / the wyf hir routynt leet
                                
                                  And gan awake / and wente hir out to pisse
                                
                                  And cam agayn / and gan hir Cradel mysse
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                                  And groped heer and ther / but she foond noon
                                
                                  Allas quod she / I hadde almoost mysgoon
                                
                                  I hadde almoost goon to the clerkes bed
                                
                                  Ey benedicite / thanne had I foule ysped
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                                  And forth she gooth / til she the Cradel fond
                                
                                  She gropeth alwey / forther with hir hond
                                
                                  And foond the bed / and thoghte noght but good
                                
                                  By cause / þat the Cradel by it stood
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                                  And nyste wher she was / for it was derk
                                
                                  But faire and wel / she creep in to the clerk
                                
                                  And lyth ful stille / and wolde haue caught a sleepe
                                
                                  With-Inne a while / this Iohn the clerk vp leepe
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                                  And on this goode wyf / he leyth on soore
                                
                                  So murie a fyt ne hadde she nat ful yoore
                                
                                  He priketh harde and depe / as he were mad
                                
                                  This ioly lyf / han thise two clerkes lad
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                                  Til þat / the thridde cok bigan to synge
                                
                                  ¶ Aleyn wax wery / in the dawenynge
                                
                                  ffor he hadde swonken / al the longe nyght
                                
                                  And seyde / fare wel Malyn swete wight
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                                  The day is come / I may no lenger byde
                                
                                  But eueremo / wher so I go or ryde
                                
                                  I is thyn awen clerk so haue I sel
                                
                                  ¶ Now deere lemman quod she / go fare wel

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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 121
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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