The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  And at þe chambir dore whil he stood
                                
                                  he cryed and knokked as þat he were wood
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                                  what how what do ȝe mayster nicholay
                                
                                  how may ȝe slepen al þis longe day
                                
                                  But al for nought he herde nat o word
                                
                                  An hole he fond right lowe vpon a boord
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                                  Ther as þe cat was wont in for to creepe /
                                
                                  And at þat hole he loked in ful deepe /
                                
                                  And atte laste he hadde of him a sight
                                
                                  This nicholas sat euer gapyng vpright
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                                  As he had loked on þe newe moone
                                
                                  Adoun he goþ and tolde his mayster soone
                                
                                  In what aray he sawh þis ilke man
                                
                                  This carpenter to blessen him bygan
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                                  And seyde now help vs seynte Frideswyde
                                
                                  A man woot litel what him schal betyde
                                
                                  This man is falle with his astronomye
                                
                                  In som woodnesse or in som agonye
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                                  I thought ay wel how þat it schulde be
                                
                                  Men schulde nought knowe of goddes pryuyte
                                
                                  ¶ Ȝe blessed be alwey a lewed man
                                
                                  That nat but oonly his bileeue can
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                                  So ferde anoþer clerk with astronomye /
                                
                                  he walked in the feeldes for to prye
                                
                                  vpon þe sterres what þer schulde bifalle
                                
                                  Til he was in a marle pit I-falle /
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                                  he saugh nat þat but ȝet by seint Thomas /
                                
                                  Me reweth sore for heende nicholas [folio 46b] 
                                
                                  he schal be ratyd of his studyyng
                                
                                  If þat I may by ihū heuen kyng
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                                  Gete me a staf þat I may vnder spore
                                
                                  whil þat þou Robyn heuest vp þe dore
                                
                                  he schal out of his studyyng as I gesse
                                
                                  And to þe chambir dore he gan him dresse /
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                                  his knaue was a strong karl for þe noones
                                
                                  And by þe hasp he haf it vp at oones

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 99
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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