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

                                
                                  Vnto a smyth men clepith daun Gerueys
                                
                                  That in his forge smythed plowh harneys
                                
                                  He scharpeth schar and cultre bysily
                                
                                  This absolon knokkeþ al esily
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                                  And seyde vnto Geruays and þat anoon
                                
                                  what who art thou; it am I Absolon
                                
                                  what Absolon what [[a later for is put here]]  cristes swete tree
                                
                                  why ryse ȝe so rathe benedicite [folio 50b] 
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                                  what eyleþ ȝou some gay gurl god it woot
                                
                                  haþ brought ȝou þus vpon þe verytrot
                                
                                  By seinte noet / ȝe wot wel what I mene
                                
                                  This absolon ne roughte nat a bene
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                                  Of al þis pley no word agayn he ȝaf
                                
                                  For he hadde more tow on his distaf
                                
                                  Than Gerueys knew and seyde freend so deere
                                
                                  That hote cultre in þe Chymney heere
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                                  As lene it me I haue þer wiþ to doone
                                
                                  I wol it bring agayn to þe ful soone
                                
                                  Gerueys answerde / certes were it gold
                                
                                  Or in a poke nobles al vntold
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                                  Ȝe schul him haue as I am trewe smyth
                                
                                  Ey cristes fo [[a later te is added]]  what wil ȝe do þer wiþ
                                
                                  Ther of quod absolon be as be may
                                
                                  I schal wel telle it þe to morwe day
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                                  And caughte þe cultre by þe colde stele
                                
                                  Ful soft out at þe dore he gan it stele /
                                
                                  And wente vnto þe carpenteres wal
                                
                                  he cowheþ first and knokkeþ þer wiþ al
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                                  vpon the wyndow right as he dede er
                                
                                  This alisoun answerde who is ther
                                
                                  That knokkest so; I warant it a þeef
                                
                                  why nay quod he god woot my sweete leef
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                                  I am þyn absolon, O my derlyng
                                
                                  Of gold quod he I haue þe brought a ryng
                                
                                  My mooder ȝaf it me so god me saue
                                
                                  Ful fyn it is and þerto wel I-graue

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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 108
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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