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

                                
                                  That if þou wreye me þou schalt be woode
                                
                                  ¶ Nay crist for-beede it for his holy blode
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                                  Quod þoo þis sely man .I. nam no labbe
                                
                                  And þouhe .I. seie .I. ne am not leue to gabbe
                                
                                  Saie whatt þou wolte .I. schal it neuer telle
                                
                                  To childe ne wife be him þat haried helle
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                                  Nowe Iohn quod Nicholas .I. wil nouȝt lye
                                
                                  .I. haue .I.-founde in myne astrologie
                                
                                  As .I. haue loked in þe mone brihte
                                
                                  Þat nowe a mononday next a quarter nyhte
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                                  Schal fal a rayne and þat so wilde and wode
                                
                                  Þat halfe so grete was neuer noes flode
                                
                                  This werlde he seide in lesse þan in an houre
                                
                                  Schal be al dreinte so hydous is þe schoure
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                                  Thus schal mankinde drenche and lese hir lyf
                                
                                  This carpentier ansewerd alas my wif
                                
                                  And schal sche drenche alas myn Alisoune
                                
                                  ffor sorwe of þis he fel almoste a-doune
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                                  And seide is no remedie in þis caas
                                
                                  Whi ȝis for god quod hende Nicholas
                                
                                  If þou wolte worchen after lore and rede
                                
                                  Thou maiste nouȝt werchen after þine owen hede
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                                  ffor þus seiþe Salomon þat was ful trewe
                                
                                  Werke al be counsel an þu schalt nouht rewe
                                
                                  And if þow worchen wilte be goode counseile
                                
                                  .I vnder-take wiþ-oute mast or seile
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                                  Ȝit schal .I. saue hire and þe and me
                                
                                  Haste þow nouht herde how sauede was Noe
                                
                                  Whan þat owre lorde haþe warned him be-forne
                                
                                  That all þe werld wiþ water scholde be for-lorne
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                                  Ȝis quod þis Carpentier ful ȝore a-go
                                
                                  Hast þou nouht herde quod Nicholas also
                                
                                  The sorwe of Noe wiþ his felauschep
                                
                                  Or þat he myht get his wif to schip
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                                  Him had leuer .I. dar wele vnder-take [folio 44a] 
                                
                                  Att þilke time þan all his weþeres blake

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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 101
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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