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

                                
                                  fful wele accordant to his geterneynge
                                
                                  This Carpenter awoke and herd him singe
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                                  And spake vnto his wif and seide anone
                                
                                  What Alison heres þou not Absolone
                                
                                  That chaunteþ þus vnder oure boures wal
                                
                                  And sche ansewerde hir husbonde þer-wiþ-al
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                                  Ȝis god wote Iohen .I. wote it euery. dele
                                
                                  Þis passeþ forþe what wil ȝe bet þan wele
                                
                                  ffro daie to daie þis Ioli Absolon
                                
                                  So woweþ hire þat him is woo be-goon
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                                  He wakeþ all þe nyght and al þe daie [folio 42a] 
                                
                                  He kembed his lokkes brode and maade hem gaie
                                
                                  He woweþ hire be menes and brocage
                                
                                  And swore he wolde bene hir owen page
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                                  He singeþ brokkinge as a nyhtingale
                                
                                  He sente hir Meþe and Piment and spyced ale
                                
                                  And weifres pipeinge hote vnder þe glede
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                                  And for sche was of towne he proferd mede [Vn Ouidius Ictibus agrestes] 
                                
                                  For some folke wil be wonne with richesse
                                
                                  And sum for strokes and somme for gentilnesse
                                
                                  Somtime to schewe his lyhtnesse and Maistre
                                
                                  He plaieþ Heraude vpon a scafolde hihe
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                                  Bot what aveileþ him as in þis caas
                                
                                  Sche loueþ soo þis hende Nicholas
                                
                                  That absolon maie blowe þe bokkes horne
                                
                                  He ne haþe for his laboure bot a scorene
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                                  And þus sche Makeþ Absolon hire Ape
                                
                                  And al his erneste torneþ till a Iape
                                
                                  For soþe is þis prouerbe it is no lye
                                
                                  Men sein right þus Alweie þe neighe Sleyȝe
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                                  Makeþ þe fer leue to be loþe
                                
                                  For þouhe þat Absolon be woode or wroþe
                                
                                  Be cause þat he fer was from hir siht
                                
                                  This nyhe Nicholas stode in his liht
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                                  ¶ Nowe bere ȝowe wele hende Nicholas
                                
                                  ffor Absolon may waile and singe Alas

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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 97
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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