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

                                
                                  And so be-fell it on a seturdaie
                                
                                  This Carpentier was gone to Oseneye
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                                  And hende Nicholas and Alison
                                
                                  Accorded bue to þis conclusione
                                
                                  That Nicholas schapen hem a wile
                                
                                  Þese sely Ielouse husbonde to be-guyle
                                  Line 3404 
                                
                                  And if so be þe game went ariht
                                
                                  Sche scholde slepen in his arme al nyht
                                
                                  ffor þis was his desire and hire also
                                
                                  And riht anone wiþ-oute wordes moo
                                  Line 3408 
                                
                                  This Nicholas no langere wolde tarye
                                
                                  Bot doþe soft vn to his chambre Carye
                                
                                  Boþe mete and drinke for a daie or tweye
                                
                                  And to hir husbonde bad hire for to seie
                                  Line 3412 
                                
                                  If þat he axede after Nicholas
                                
                                  Sche scholde seie sche nyst where he was
                                
                                  Of al þat daie sche seihe him nouȝt with Eye [folio 42b] 
                                
                                  Sche trowed þat he was in sum Maledye
                                  Line 3416 
                                
                                  ffor for no crye hire maide couþe him calle
                                
                                  He wolde ansewere for noþinge þat myht falle
                                
                                  This passeþ forþe al þilke Saturdaie
                                
                                  Þat Nicholas stil in his chambur leye
                                  Line 3420 
                                
                                  And ete or slepede or dide what him liste
                                
                                  Til þe sonday þat þe sonday goþ to riste
                                
                                  This sely Carpentier haþe grete Merveile
                                
                                  Of Nicholas or what þinge miht him aile
                                  Line 3424 
                                
                                  And seide .I. am adrede be seint Thomas
                                
                                  It stondeþ nouht a-riht wiþ Nicholas
                                
                                  God schelde þat he deyede sodanly
                                
                                  This werlde is nowe ful tekel sikurly
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                                  .I. sihe to daie a corps borne to cherche
                                
                                  That nowe on Monondaie last .I. sawhe him werche
                                
                                  Go vp quod he vn to [his] knaue anone
                                
                                  Clepe att his dore or knoke wiþ a stone
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                                  Looke howe it is and tel me boldely.
                                
                                  This knaue goþ him vp ful studely

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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 98
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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