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

                                
                                  Whan þat þe first cokko hath crowe anone
                                
                                  Vp riseþ þis Ioly louer Absolon
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                                  And him arrayeþ gaye and pointe deuise
                                
                                  Bot first he cheweþ greine and licorise
                                
                                  To smellen swote or he had kemped his here
                                
                                  Vnder his tonge a trewe loue he bere
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                                  ffor þerby wende he to be gracious
                                
                                  He romeþe to þe carpenteres house
                                
                                  And still he stant vnder þe schotte wyndowe
                                
                                  Vnto his breste it rauht. it was so lowe
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                                  An soft he couched wiþ a seme sowne
                                
                                  Watt do ȝe hony combe swete Alisone
                                
                                  Mi faire birde mi swete Sinamome
                                
                                  And wakeþ lemman myne and spekeþ wiþe me
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                                  Wel litel þinken ȝe vpon my woo
                                
                                  That for ȝoure loue .I. swete ar .I. go
                                
                                  No wonder is þouhe þat .I. swelt and swete
                                
                                  .I morne as doþe lome after þe tete
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                                  .I.-wis lemman .I. haue suche loue longeinge
                                
                                  That ilke a turtul trewe. is my Morneinge
                                
                                  .I. maye note eten no more þan a maide
                                
                                  Go fro þe window Iak fole sche seide
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                                  ¶ As helpe me god .I. will nouht be compaine [folio 46a] 
                                
                                  .I. loue a-noþer ande elles .I. war to blame
                                
                                  Wele bette þan þe be ihesu Absolone
                                
                                  Go for þi waie or .I. wil cast a stone
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                                  And lat me slepe a twenti deuel weie
                                
                                  Alas quod Absolon and walawaie
                                
                                  That trewe loue was euer so yuel be-sette
                                
                                  Than kisse me sen it maie be no bette
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                                  ffor ihesu [[MS ihūe]]  loue. and for þe loue of me
                                
                                  Wilt þou þan go þi weie þere-wiþ quod sche
                                
                                  ȝe certes lemman quod þis Absolon
                                
                                  Than make þe redy quod sche .I. come anone
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                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  This Absolon downe sett him on his knes

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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 106
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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