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

                                
                                  him þenkeþ verrayly þat he may se
                                
                                  Noes flood come walkyng as þe see /
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                                  To drenchen alisoun his hony deere
                                
                                  he weepeþ wayleþ he maketh sory cheere
                                
                                  he sikeþ with ful many a sory swough
                                
                                  And goth and geteth him a knedyng trough
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                                  And after þat a tubbe and a kymelyn
                                
                                  And pryuely he sent hem to his In
                                
                                  And heng hem in þe roof in pryuete
                                
                                  His owne hond þan made laddres þre
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                                  To clymben by þe ronges and þe stalkes
                                
                                  vnto þe tubbes hangyng in þe balkes
                                
                                  And hem vitayled boþe trough and tubbe
                                
                                  with breed and cheese wiþ good ale in a Iubbe
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                                  Suffisyng right ynough as for a day
                                
                                  But or þat he had maad al þis array
                                
                                  he sent his knaue and eek his wenche also
                                
                                  vpon his neede to londoun for to go
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                                  And on þe monday whan it drew to nyght
                                
                                  he schette his dore wiþouten candel light
                                
                                  And dressed al þis þing as it schuld be
                                
                                  And schortly vp þey clumben alle þre
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                                  They seten stille wel a forlong way
                                
                                  Now pater noster clum quod Nicholay
                                
                                  And Clum quod Ion and Clum . quod. Alisoun
                                
                                  This Carpenter seyd his deuocioun
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                                  And stille he sitt and byddeþ his prayere
                                
                                  Ay waytyng on þe Reyn if he it heere
                                
                                  The deede sleep for verray busynesse
                                
                                  Fil on þis Carpenter right as I gesse /
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                                  Abowten courfew tyme or litel more
                                
                                  For trauail of his goost he groneþ sore
                                
                                  And eft he routeþ for his heed myslay
                                
                                  Doun of þe laddir stalkeþ Nicholay
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                                  And alisoun ful softe a doun hir spedde
                                
                                  wiþouten wordes mo þey goon to bedde

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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 104
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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