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

                                
                                  Vnto a smyþe Men clepen Daun geruays
                                
                                  þat in his forge smyþeieþ . plouhe hernays
                                
                                  He scharpeþ schare and culter bisilie
                                
                                  This Absolon knokkeþ al eselye
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                                  And seide vn to geruais and þat anone
                                
                                  What who art þou . It am .I. Absolone
                                
                                  What Absolone . What cristes swete tree
                                
                                  Whi rise ȝe so raþe . ey benedicite
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                                  Whate eyleþ ȝowe some gaie gerle god it wote
                                
                                  Haþe brouht ȝowe þus on þe veritote
                                
                                  Be seint note ȝe wote wele whatt .I. mene
                                
                                  This Absolon ne rouht nouht a bene
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                                  Of al his pleie no worde aȝeine he ȝaffe
                                
                                  He had more towe on his distaffe
                                
                                  Than geruays knewe and seide frende so dere
                                
                                  The hote Culter in þe chymene here
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                                  As lene it me .I. haue þer-wiþþe to done
                                
                                  .I wil bringe it aȝein ful sone
                                
                                  Gerueys ansewerde Certes were it golde
                                
                                  Or in a poke nobles al vntolde
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                                  Thowe scholdest haue as .I. am trewe smyþþe
                                
                                  Ey Cristes foo what will ȝe do þer-wiþþe
                                
                                  There-of quod Absolon be as be maye
                                
                                  I. schal wele telne it þe to morwe daie
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                                  And cauhte þe Culter be þe colde stele
                                
                                  fful soft owte att þe dore he gan stele
                                
                                  And wente vnto þe Carpentiers wal
                                
                                  He koughed first and knokked þer wiþ al
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                                  vpon þe wyndowe riht as he dide ere
                                
                                  This Alison ansewarde who his þere
                                
                                  þat knokkeþ so .I. warant . it a þefe
                                
                                  Whi naye quod he god wote my swete lefe
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                                  .I. am þin Absolon þin derleinge
                                
                                  Of golde quod he .I. haue þe browht a ringe
                                
                                  Mi modere ȝafe it me so god me saue [folio 47a] 
                                
                                  fful fyne it is and þarto wel y-graue

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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 108
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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