And seide I am a lord at alle degrees
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For after þis I hope þer comeþ more
Lemman þy grace / and swete bryd þyn ore
The wyndow sche vndyd and þat in hast
haue doon quod sche com of and speed þe fast
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lest þat our neygheboures þe aspye
This absolon gan wipe his mouþ ful drye [folio 50a]
Derk was þe night as picche or as a cole /
Out atte wyndow putte sche hir hole /
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And absolon him fel no bet ne wers
But wiþ his mouth he kist hir naked ers
Ful sauorly, whan he was war of þis
Abak he sterte and þought it was amys
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For wel he wist a womman haþ no berd
he felt a þing al rough and long I-herd
And seyde fy allas what haue I do
Tehee quod sche / and clapt þe wyndow to
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And absolon goþ forþ a sory paas
A berd a berd / quod heende Nicholas
By goddes corps þis game goþ fair and wel
This seely absolon herd euery del
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And on his lippe he gan for angir byte
And to himself he seyde I schal þe quyte
Who rubbiþ now who froteth now his lippes
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wiþ dust wiþ sand wiþ straw wiþ cloth wiþ chippes
But absolon þat seith fulofte allas
My soule bytake I vnto Sathanas
But me were leuer þan alle þis toun quod he
Of þis dispit awroken for to be
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Allas quod he allas I nadde bleynt
his hoote loue was cold and al I-queynt
For fro þat tyme þat he had kist hire ers
Of paramours ne sette he nat a kers
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For he was helyd of his maledye
Fulofte paramours he gan deffye
And wept as doþ a child þat is I-bete
A softe paas went he ouer þe strete /
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