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

                                
                                  In to þe flore þe dore fel a-none
                                
                                  This Nicholas satt ay as still as any stone
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                                  And euer gaped vp in to þe aire
                                
                                  This Carpenter wende he were in despeire
                                
                                  And hent him be þe scholdres myhtely
                                
                                  And schoke him harde and cried spitously
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                                  What Nicholas what howe loke a downe
                                
                                  Awake and þenke on cristes passion
                                
                                  .I. crouche þe from elues and from whihtes
                                
                                  There-wiþe þe nyhtes spel seide he anone rihtes.
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                                  Of foure halues. þe hous aboute
                                
                                  And on þe þresshewolde on þe dore wiþ-oute
                                
                                  Ihesu criste and seint bendight
                                
                                  Blisse þe house frome euery wikke whight
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                                  ffor þe nyghte very þe white Pater noster
                                
                                  Where wentestowe þou seinte petur. soster
                                
                                  And att þe last þis hende Nicholas
                                
                                  Gan for to sike and seide Alas
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                                  Schall all þe werlde be loste ef sones nowe
                                
                                  This Carpenter ansewerd what seistow
                                
                                  What þinke on god as we done men þat swynke
                                
                                  This Nicholas ansewerd ffeche me drynke
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                                  And after will .I. speke in priuete
                                
                                  Of certeine þinge þat toucheþ þe and me
                                
                                  .I. will tel it it none oþer man serteine
                                
                                  This Carpentier goþe doune and comeþ aȝeine
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                                  And brouht of myhty ale a large quarte
                                
                                  And whan þat iche of hem had dronken here parte
                                
                                  This Nicholas his dore fast schette [folio 43b] 
                                
                                  And doune þe Carpentier be him he sette
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                                  And seide Iohn myne Ostee leue and dere
                                
                                  Thowe schalt vpon þi trouþe swere me here
                                
                                  That to whight þou schal þis consel wriee
                                
                                  ffor it is cristees counsell þat .I. seiee
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                                  And if þou tell it man þou art for-lore
                                
                                  ffor þis venieance þou schalt haue þere fore

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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 100
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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