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

                                
                                  He Auntre him and haþ his nedes spedde
                                
                                  And .I. ly as a draf sakke in my bedde
                                
                                  And whan þis Iape is tolde anoþer daie
                                
                                  .I. sall be holden a daff a Cokeneye
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                                  .I. wil arise and auntre it it be my faithe
                                
                                  Vnhardy is vnsely þus men seyþe
                                
                                  And vppe he ros and softly he went
                                
                                  Vn to þe cradel and in his honde it hente
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                                  And bare it soft vn to his beddes fete
                                
                                  Sone after þe wife hire routeynge lete
                                
                                  An gan to wake and went hir oute to pisse [folio 52a] 
                                
                                  And cam a-gaine and gan hir cradel Misse
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                                  An groped here and þere bot sche fonde none
                                
                                  Allas quod sche .I. had almost mys gone
                                
                                  I hadde al-moste gone to þe clerkes bedde
                                
                                  Ey benedicite þan had .I. foule .I.-spedde
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                                  And forþe sche goþe til sche þe cradel fonde
                                
                                  Sche gropeþ alwey forþer wiþ hire honde
                                
                                  And fonde þe bedde and þouht nouht bot goode
                                
                                  Be cause þat þe cradel by it stode
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                                  And neste where sche was for it was derke
                                
                                  Bot faire and wele sche crepe in to þe clerke
                                
                                  And liþe ful still. and wolde haue cauht a slepe
                                
                                  Wiþ-in a while þis Iohn þe clerke vp lepe
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                                  And on þis goode wife he leiþe on sore
                                
                                  So mery a fitte ne had sche not full ȝore
                                
                                  He prikeþ harde and depe as he were madde
                                
                                  þis Ioly lif haue þese tuo clerkes ladde
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                                  Til þat þe þredde koke be-gan to singe
                                
                                  Aleyne wex wery in þe dawneinge
                                
                                  ffor he had swonken all þe longe nyht
                                
                                  And seide faire wele Malyn swete whight
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                                  The daie is come .I. maie no longer bide
                                
                                  Bot euere-mo where-so .I. go or ride
                                
                                  .I. am þine owen clerke so haue .I. sele
                                
                                  Nowe dere lemman quod sche go fare wele.

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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 121
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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