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

                                
                                  Ther as þe Carpentier is wonte to lye
                                
                                  There was þe reuel and þe melodie
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                                  And þus liþe Alison and Nicholas
                                
                                  In besines or merþe and of solas
                                
                                  Til þat þe bell of lawdes be-ganne to ringe
                                
                                  And freres in þe chauncell gonne singe
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                                  ¶ This Parissche clerke þis amorous absolon
                                
                                  þat is for loue alwei so wo begone
                                
                                  vpon þe Monondaie was att Osneye
                                
                                  Wiþ company him to desporte and pleye
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                                  And axed vpon caas a cloistrere
                                
                                  fful priuely after Iohn þe Carpentiere
                                
                                  And he droughe him a-parte out of þe cherche
                                
                                  And seide .I. note .I. seihe him here nouht wirche
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                                  Seþ Saturdaie .I. troue þa he be wente
                                
                                  ffor timbre þere oure Abbote haþ him sent
                                
                                  ffor he is wonte for timebre for to go [folio 45b] 
                                
                                  And dwellen att þe grange a daie or tuo
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                                  Or elles he is at his hous certeine
                                
                                  Wher þat he be .I. kann nouȝt sothely seine
                                
                                  This Absolon ful Ioly was and liht
                                
                                  And þouht. Now is time to wake al nyht
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                                  For sekurly .I. sawhe him nouhte steringe
                                
                                  Abouten his dore sen dai be-gan to springe
                                
                                  So mote .I. Thriue .I. schal att þe Cokkes crowe
                                
                                  fful priuely knokken att his wyndowe
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                                  That stant ful lowe vpon his bowres wall
                                
                                  To Alison Nowe will .I. tellen all
                                
                                  My loue longeinge for ȝit .I. schall nouht mys
                                
                                  That att þe leste waye .I. schal hire kis
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                                  ¶ Som manere comforþe schal .I. haue parfaie
                                
                                  My mouþe haþe yched all þis longe daie
                                
                                  That [is] a signe of kissinge att þe leste
                                
                                  All nyght me mete eke þat .I. was att a feste
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                                  There-fore I. wil go slepe an houre or tueye
                                
                                  And all the nyht þan will .I. wake and pleye

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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 105
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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