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

                                
                                  This wol I ȝiue þe / if þou me kisse
                                
                                  This Nicholas was rise for to pysse
                                
                                  And þought he wold amenden al þe Iape
                                
                                  he schulde kisse his ers or þat he skape
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                                  And vp þe wyndow dyde he hastily
                                
                                  And out his ers putteþ he pryuely
                                
                                  Ouer þe buttok to haunche bon
                                
                                  And þer wiþ spak þis clerk þis absolon
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                                  Spek sweete bryd I wot nat wher þou art /.
                                
                                  This Nicholas anon let flee a fart [folio 51a] 
                                
                                  As gret as it had ben a thundir dent
                                
                                  And with þat strook he was almost I-blent
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                                  And he was redy with his yren hoot
                                
                                  And Nicholas amyd þe ers he smoot
                                
                                  Of goþ þe skyn an hande brede aboute
                                
                                  The hoote cultre brente so his toute
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                                  And for þe smert / he wende for to dye
                                
                                  As he were wood anon he gan to crye
                                
                                  help watir watir / help for goddes herte
                                
                                  This Carpenter out of his slumber sterte
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                                  And herd on crye watir as he were wood
                                
                                  He þought allas for now comeþ Noes flood
                                
                                  he sit him vp wiþoute wordes mo
                                
                                  And wiþ his ax he smot þe corde a-two
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                                  And doun he goþ he fond nowthir to selle /
                                
                                  No bred ne ale til he com to þe selle/
                                
                                  Vpon þe floor and þer aswoun he lay
                                
                                  vp styrt hir alisoun and Nicholay
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                                  And cryden out and harrow in þe strete /
                                
                                  The neyghebours boþe smal and grete /
                                
                                  In ronnen for to gauren on þis man
                                
                                  That a swowne lay boþe pale and wan
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                                  For with þe fal he brosten had his arm
                                
                                  But stond he muste to his owne harm
                                
                                  For whan he spak he was anon born doun
                                
                                  with heende Nicholas and alisoun

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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 109
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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