Thei tolden euery man þat he was wode
He was a-gast so of þe Nowels flode
Thurghe fantasie þat of his vanite
He had him bouhte knedeyng tubbes þre
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And had hem hongede in þe roofe aboue [folio 47b]
And þat he preide him for goddes loue
To sitten in þe roof par compaignye
The folke gan lawhen att his fantasie
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An to þe roofe þei keken and þei gape
And torned al his harme vnto a Iape.
ffor what so þis Carpentier ansewerde
It was for nouht no man his resone herde
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Wiþe oþes grete he was so sworne y-doune
That he was holden woode in all þe toune
ffor euery clerke anone riht ichone helde wiþ oþere
Thei seide þe man is wode my leue broþere
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And euery white gan lauhen att his strif
Thus swyued was þe Carpentiers wif
ffor al his kepeinge and his Ielouseie
And Absolon haþe keste hire hir neþer eye
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And Nicholas is scalded in his toute
This tale is done and god saue al þe route. [[No gap in the MS.]]
Explicit fabula Molendenarii
