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

                                
                                  And in þe floor þe dore fil doun anoon
                                
                                  This nicholas sat stille as eny stoon
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                                  And euer he capyd vpward to þe eyr
                                
                                  This Carpenter wende he were in despeir
                                
                                  And hent him by þe schuldres mightily
                                
                                  And schook him harde and cryed spitously
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                                  what Nicholas what how man loke a doun
                                
                                  A-wake and þynk on cristes passioun
                                
                                  I crowche þe from Elues and from wightes
                                
                                  Ther-with þe night-spel seyde he anon rightes
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                                  On þe foure halues of þe hous aboute /
                                
                                  And of þe þreisshfold of þe dore wiþoute
                                
                                  lord Ihū crist and seynte bendight
                                
                                  Blesse þis hous from euery wikkede wight
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                                  for nyghtes verray þe white pater-noster
                                
                                  wher wonestow now, seynte petres soster
                                
                                  And atte laste heende Nicholas
                                
                                  Gan for to syke sore and seyde allas
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                                  Schal al þe world be lost eft sones now
                                
                                  This Carpenter answerde what seystow /
                                
                                  what þenk on god as we doon men þat swynke
                                
                                  This Nicholas answerde fette me drynke
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                                  And after wol I speke in pryuyte
                                
                                  Of certeyn þing þat toucheþ þe and me
                                
                                  I wol telle it non oþer man certayn
                                
                                  This Carpenter goþ forth and comþ agayn
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                                  And brought of mighty ale a large quart/
                                
                                  whan ech of hem y-dronken had his part
                                
                                  This Nicholas his dore gan to schitte
                                
                                  And dede þis carpenter doun by him sitte [folio 47a] 
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                                  And seide Iohan myn host ful leue and deere
                                
                                  Thou schalt vpon þy trouþe swere me heere /
                                
                                  That to no wight þou schalt þis counsel wreye
                                
                                  For it is cristes counsel þat I seye
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                                  And if þou telle it man þou art forlore
                                
                                  For þis vengaunce þou schalt han þerfore

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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 100
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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