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

                                
                                  And seide .I. am a lorde att all degres
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                                  And after þis .I. hope þere comeþ more
                                
                                  Lemman þi grace and swete birde þine ore
                                
                                  The wyndow scho vndoþe and þat in haste
                                
                                  Haue do quod sche come of and spede þe faste
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                                  Leste þat owre neybores þe Asspie
                                
                                  This Absolone gan wipe his mouþe ful drie
                                
                                  Derke was þe nyhte as pyche or as þe cole
                                
                                  And att þe wyndowe owte sche put hire hole
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                                  And Absolo[n] him fel no bette ne wers
                                
                                  Bott wiþ his mouþe he kissed hir naked ers
                                
                                  fful sauorly or he was warre of þis
                                
                                  A-bakke he sterte and þouht it was a-mys
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                                  ffor wele he wiste a womman haþe no berde
                                
                                  He felte a þinge al roughe and longe yherede
                                
                                  And seide fie Alas what haue .I. doo
                                
                                  Tehe quod sche and clapped þe window to
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                                  And Absolon goþe forþe a sory paas
                                
                                  A berde a berde seide hende Nicholas
                                
                                  Be goddes corps þis goþe faire and wele
                                
                                  This sely Absolon herde it euery dele
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                                  And on his lippe he gan for angur bite
                                
                                  And to him selfe he seide .I. scal þe qwite
                                
                                  Who rubbeth nowe who froteþ nowe his lippes
                                
                                  Wiþ duste wiþ sonde. wiþ strawe wiþ cloþe wiþe chippes
                                
                                  Bot Absolon þat seiþe ful ofte Alas
                                
                                  My soule be-take .I. to sathenas
                                
                                  Bot me were leuere þan al þis toune quod he
                                
                                  Of þis dispite awroken for to be.
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                                  Alas quod he alas .I. ne hadde yblente [folio 46b] 
                                
                                  His hote loue is colde and al yquente
                                
                                  ffor fro þat time þat he had kissed here ers
                                
                                  Of paramours he sett nouht a cres
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                                  ffor he was helede of his maladye
                                
                                  ffull oft paramours he gan defie
                                
                                  And weppe as doþe a childe þat is ybete
                                
                                  A soft pas he went ouere þe strete

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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 107
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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