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

                                
                                  Him þenkeþe verraily þat he maie see
                                
                                  Noe flode come walkinge as þe see
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                                  To drenche Alison his owen dere
                                
                                  He wepeþ he weileþ he makeþ sori chere
                                
                                  He sikkeþ wiþ ful mony a sory swoghe
                                
                                  And goþe and geteþ him a knedeinge troughe
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                                  And after a tubbe and a kimlyne
                                
                                  And priuely he sent hem to his inne
                                
                                  And henge in þe rofe in priuete
                                
                                  His owene honde: he made eke leddres þree
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                                  To climme by þe ronges and þe stakes [folio 45a] 
                                
                                  Vn-to þe tobbes hongeinge in þe balkes
                                
                                  And hem vitailled boþe trouhe and tubbe
                                
                                  Wiþe brede and chese and good ale in a Iubbe
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                                  Suffisinge . riht ynouhe as for a daie
                                
                                  Bot ar he had maade al þis araie
                                
                                  He sente his knaue and eke his wenche also
                                
                                  Vpon his nede to londen for to goo
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                                  And on mononday whanne it drouhe to nyhte
                                
                                  He schette his dore wiþ-outen candellyhte
                                
                                  And dressed al þinge as it schold be
                                
                                  And schortely clomben vpe al þre
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                                  Thei setten stille wele a forlonge weie
                                
                                  Nowe pater noster Clum seide Nicholaie
                                
                                  And clum . seide Iohn . and Clum seide Alison
                                
                                  This Carpentier seide his deuocion
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                                  And stille he sitteþ and biddeþe his preier
                                
                                  Awaiteinge on þe reine if he it here
                                
                                  The deþe slepe for wery bisinesse
                                
                                  ffel on þis Carpentier riht as .I. gesse
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                                  Aboute Corfew time or litel more
                                
                                  ffor traueile of his goste he groneþ sore
                                
                                  And eft he routeþe for his hede misleie
                                
                                  Doune of þe ladder stalkeþ Nicholeie
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                                  And Alison ful soft a-doune sche spedde
                                
                                  Wiþ-outen wordes mo þei gone to bedde

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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 104
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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