The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  And swor hire oth / by seynt Thomas of Kent
                                
                                  That she wolde ben / at his comaundement
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                                  whan þat she may / hire leiser wel a-spie
                                
                                  Myn husbond is / so ful of Ielusye
                                
                                  That but ȝe wayte wel / and be preue
                                
                                  I wot right wel / I nam but ded quod she
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                                  Ȝe must be ful derne / as in this cas
                                
                                  ¶ . Nay ther-of care the nought / quod Nicholas
                                
                                  A Clerk had litherly / byset his whyle
                                
                                  But if he coude / a Carpenter begyle
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                                  And thus they ben / acorded / and I-sworn
                                
                                  To wayte a tyme / as I haue told byforn
                                
                                  ¶ whan Nicholas had don this / euery dele [Nota bene] 
                                
                                  And thakkede hire / a-boute the lendes wele
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                                  he kisseth hire swete / and taketh his sautrie
                                
                                  And pleyeth faste / and maketh melodye
                                
                                  ¶ . Thanne fel it thus / þat to the Parissh Chirche
                                
                                  Cristes owen werk / for to werche
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                                  This good wyf went / on an haliday
                                
                                  hire forhede shon / as bright as ony day
                                
                                  So was it wasshen / whan she lete hir werk
                                
                                  ¶ . Now was there of þat chirche / a parissh clerk
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                                  The which / þat was I-cleped / Absolon
                                
                                  Crool was his heer / & as the gold it shon
                                
                                  And strotted as a fanne / large and brode
                                
                                  fful streyt and euene / lay his ioly shode
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                                  his rode was rede / his eyen grey as goos
                                
                                  with Poules wyndowes / coruen on hise shoos
                                
                                  In Hosen rede / he went ful fetislye [folio 41b] 
                                
                                  I-clad he was / ful smal and proprelye
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                                  Al in a kirtil / of a light vaget
                                
                                  fful fair & thikke / ben the poyntis set
                                
                                  And ther-vp-on / he had a gay surplice
                                
                                  As white as is / the blosme on the rice
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                                  A mery child he was / so god me saue
                                
                                  wel coude he laten blod / & clippe and shaue

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 95
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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