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

                                
                                  he auntred him and has his needes sped
                                
                                  And I lye as a draf sak in my bed
                                
                                  And when þis Iape is tald anoþer day
                                
                                  I sal be held a daf a cokenay
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                                  vnhardy is vnsely as men saith
                                
                                  I wol arise and auntre it in good faiþ
                                
                                  And vp he ros and softely he wente /
                                
                                  vnto þe cradil and in his hand it hente
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                                  And bar it softe vnto his beddis feet
                                
                                  Soone after þis þe wyf hir routyng leet /
                                
                                  And gan awake and went hir for to pisse
                                
                                  And cam agayn and gan hir cradel mysse
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                                  And groped heer and þer but sche fond noon
                                
                                  Allas quod sche / I had almost mys goon
                                
                                  I had almost goon to þe clerkes bed
                                
                                  Ey bendicite þan had I foule I-sped
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                                  And forþ sche goþ til sche þe cradil fand [folio 56b] 
                                
                                  Sche gropith alway forther with hir hand
                                
                                  And fand þe bed and þoughte nat but good
                                
                                  By cause þat þe cradil by hit stood
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                                  Nat knowyng wher sche was for it was derk
                                
                                  But fair and wel sche creep in to þe clerk
                                
                                  And lith ful stille and wolde han caught a sleep
                                
                                  wiþinne a while Iohn þe clerk vp leep
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                                  And on this goode wyf leyþ on ful sore
                                
                                  So mery a fytt/ ne hadd sche nat ful ȝore
                                
                                  he prikeþ harde and deepe as he were mad
                                
                                  This Ioly lyf han þis twey clerkes had
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                                  Til þat þe þridde cok bygan to synge
                                
                                  Aleyn wax wery in þe dawenynge
                                
                                  For he had swonken al þe longe night/
                                
                                  And seyd far wel malyn my sweete wight
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                                  The day is come I may no lenger byde /
                                
                                  But euermo wher so I go or ryde
                                
                                  I am þin owen clerk so haue I seel
                                
                                  Now deere lemman quod sche go far wel

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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 121
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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