The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 568] 
                                  
                                  Anoþer day in myn absence /
                                
                                  þis discipline and þis crafty science
                                  Line 1253 
                                
                                  ¶ let take anoþer vnce quod he þo
                                
                                  Of quyk siluer wiþoute wordes mo
                                
                                  And do þerwiþ as ȝe han don ar þis
                                
                                  Wiþ þat oþer which þat now siluer is
                                  Line 1257 
                                
                                  þis prest him busieþ in al þat he can
                                
                                  To don as þis Chanōn þis cursede man
                                
                                  Comaundeþ him and faste blew þe fire
                                
                                  ffor to come to þeffecte of his desire
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                                  And þis Chanōn right in þe mene while
                                
                                  Al redy was þis prest eft to begyle
                                
                                  And for a contynaunce in his hond bar
                                
                                  An holough stikke tak heede and be war
                                  Line 1265 
                                
                                  In þe ende of which an vnce and no more
                                
                                  Of siluer lymaile put was al bifore
                                
                                  Was in his coole and stopped wiþ wex wel
                                
                                  ffor to kepe in his lymayl euery del
                                  Line 1269 
                                
                                  And whiles þis prest was in his businesse
                                
                                  This Chanon wiþ his stikke gan him dresse
                                
                                  To him anon and his poudre caste In
                                
                                  As he dede er þe deuel out of his skyn
                                  Line 1273 
                                
                                  him torne I pray to god for his falshede
                                
                                  ffor he was euer fals in oþe and dede
                                
                                  And wiþ his stikke aboue þe crosselette
                                
                                  þat was ordeigned wiþ þat false gette
                                  Line 1277 
                                
                                  he stereþ þe coles til it relente gan
                                
                                  The wax agayn þe fyr as euery man [folio 188a] 
                                
                                  But it a fool be woot wel and moot neede
                                
                                  And al þat in þe hole was out ȝede
                                  Line 1281 
                                
                                  And in to þe Crosselet hastily it fel
                                
                                  The prest supposede noþing but wel
                                
                                  But busyed him faste and was wonder fayn
                                
                                  Supposyng nouȝt but trouþe soþ to sayn
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                                  he was so glad I can nouȝt expresse
                                
                                  In no maner his merþe and his gladnesse

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 418
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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