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

                                
                                  And swore an he-oþe be seinte Thomas of Kent
                                
                                  That sche wolde be att is commandement
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                                  Whan þat sche maie hir leisere wele aspie
                                
                                  Mine husbonde is so ful of Ielousye
                                
                                  That bot .I. weite wele and be priue
                                
                                  .I. whote riht wele .I. name but dede quod sche
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                                  Ȝe motte be ful derne as in þis cas
                                
                                  Nay þere-of care þe nouht quod Nicholas
                                
                                  A clerke hadde liþerli be-sette his while
                                
                                  Bot if he couþe a carpenter begile
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                                  And þus þei attorden and. y-sworne
                                
                                  To wayte a tyme as .I. haue tolde be-forne
                                
                                  Whan Nicholas hadde þis euery dele
                                
                                  And þakked hire aboute þe lendes wele
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                                  He kiste hire swete and takeþ his sautrie
                                
                                  And plaieþ fast and makeþ melodie
                                
                                  ¶ Than fel it þus þat to þe Parissche cherche
                                
                                  Cristes owen werke for to werche
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                                  This good wife went on an haly daie
                                
                                  Hire forhed schone as briht as any daie
                                
                                  So was it whassche whan sche lete hir werke
                                
                                  Nowe was þere of þat chirche a parische clerke
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                                  The whiche þat was ycleped Absolon
                                
                                  Crull was his here and as þe gold it schone
                                
                                  And strouted as a ffan large and brode
                                
                                  fful streighte and euen lay his Ioly schode
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                                  His rud was rede his yen grei as goos
                                
                                  Wiþ poules wyndowe coruen on his schoos
                                
                                  In hoses rede he went fetisly
                                
                                  Y-cladde he was ful smal and propurly
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                                  Al in a kertell of a liht wachett
                                
                                  fful faire and ful þike be þe pointes sett
                                
                                  And þere vpon he hadd a gaie surplise
                                
                                  As white as is þe blossome on þe Rise
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                                  A mery childe he was as god me saue
                                
                                  And wele couþe he laten blode or clippe or schaue

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 95
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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