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

                                
                                  And make a charter of londe or on quitance
                                
                                  In twenti manere quod he trip and daunce
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                                  After þe scole of Oxenforde þo
                                
                                  And wiþ his legges casten to and fro
                                
                                  And pleyen songes in a small rebibe [folio 41b] 
                                
                                  Ther-to he songe some time a loude quynyble
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                                  And also wele couþe he pleie on a geterne
                                
                                  In all þe toune nas brewes ne tauerne
                                
                                  That he ne viset it wiþ his solas
                                
                                  There any gailerd tapstere was
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                                  Bot soþe to seine he was sumdele squaymous
                                
                                  Of fartinge and of speche daungerous
                                
                                  ¶ This absolon þat Ioly was and gaie
                                
                                  Goþe wiþ a censer on þe haly daie
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                                  Sensynge þe wyues of þe parische faste
                                
                                  And many a louely loke on hem caste
                                
                                  And nameli on þis Carpenteres wif
                                
                                  To loken on hire him þouhte a mery lyf
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                                  Sche was so propre and swete and licorous
                                
                                  I dar wele seie if sche hade bue a mous
                                
                                  And he a cat he wolde her hinte anone
                                
                                  This Pariche clerce. þis Ioly Absolone
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                                  Haþe in his herte suche a loue longeinge
                                
                                  That of no wif toke he none offringe
                                
                                  For curtesye he seide he wolde none
                                
                                  The mone whan it was nyht ful briht schone
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                                  And absolon his geterne haþe ytake
                                
                                  ffor paramoures he þouhte for to wake
                                
                                  And for he goþ Iolif and amorous
                                
                                  Til he came to þe Carpenters hous
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                                  A litel after cokkes had. ycrowe
                                
                                  And drissed him vp be a schot windowe
                                
                                  That was vp on þe carpenteres wall
                                
                                  He singes in his voice gentill and small
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                                  Nowe dere lady if þi willes be
                                
                                  .I. preie ȝowe þat ȝe wil rewe on me

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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 96
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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