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

                                
                                  And att þe chambre dore while þat he stode
                                
                                  He criede and knokked as þat he were wode
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                                  What howe what do ȝe Maister Nicholay
                                
                                  Howe maie ȝe slepen al þe longe daie
                                
                                  Bot al for nouht he herde nouht a worde
                                
                                  An hole he fonde ful longe vpon a borde
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                                  There as þe catte was wonte inne for to crepe
                                
                                  And att þat hole he loke in ful depe
                                
                                  And att þe last he had of him a siht
                                
                                  This Nicholas satt euer gapinge vpriht
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                                  As he had keked on þe newe mone
                                
                                  And doune he goþe and tolde his meister sone
                                
                                  In what araie he sauhe þis ilke man
                                
                                  This Carpenter to blissen him be-gan
                                  Line 3448 
                                
                                  And seide helpe vs seint ffritheswide
                                
                                  A man whote litel what him schal be-tide
                                
                                  This man is fall wiþ his Arstromye
                                
                                  In some wodenes or somme Agonye
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                                  .I. thouht ay wele howe it scholde be
                                
                                  Men scholde nouht knowe of goddes priuete
                                
                                  Ȝe blissed be alwey a lewed man.
                                
                                  Þat nouht bot onely his beleue can.
                                  Line 3456 
                                
                                  So ferd anoþer clerke wiþ Astronomye [folio 43a] 
                                
                                  He walked in to þe feldes for to prye
                                
                                  vppon þe sterres what þere scholde befalle
                                
                                  Til he was in a marle pitte y-falle
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                                  He sawhe nouht þat Bot ȝit be seint Thomas
                                
                                  Me rewþe sore of hende Nicholas
                                
                                  He schal be rated of his stodiynge
                                
                                  If þat .I. maie be Iesus heuen kinge
                                  Line 3464 
                                
                                  Gete me a staf þat .I. maie vnder spore
                                
                                  While þat þou Robin heueste vpe þe dore
                                
                                  He schal oute of his stodiinge as .I. gesse
                                
                                  And to þe Chambre dore he gan him dresse
                                  Line 3468 
                                
                                  His knaue was a stronge karle for þe nones
                                
                                  And be þe hespe he heue it vp att ones

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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 99
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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