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 make a charter of lond / or acquietance
                                
                                  In xxti maners / coude he tryppe and daunce
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                                  After the scole / of Oxenford tho
                                
                                  And with hise leggis / casten to and fro
                                
                                  And pleyen song / on a smal ribible
                                
                                  Ther-to he song som tyme / a loude quynyble
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                                  And as wel coude he pley / on a geterne
                                
                                  In al the Toun nas there / brewhous ne Tauerne
                                
                                  That he ne vesited / with his solace
                                
                                  There ony gaylard / tapstere was
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                                  But sothe to seyn / he was somdele squeymous
                                
                                  Of fartyng / and of speche daungerous
                                
                                  This Absolon / that ioly was and gay
                                
                                  Goth with a Censer / on the haliday
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                                  Sensyng the wyues / of the Parissh fast
                                
                                  And many a louely loke / on hem he cast
                                
                                  And namely / on this Carpenteres wyf
                                
                                  To loke on hire / him þought a mery lif
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                                  She was so propre / and swete / and likerous
                                
                                  I dar wel seyn / if she had ben a Mous
                                
                                  And he a kat / he wold hire hent a-non
                                
                                  This parissh Clerk / this ioly Absolon
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                                  hath in his hert / swich a loue longyng
                                
                                  That of no wyf / toke he non offryng
                                
                                  ffor curteisie he seide / he wold non
                                
                                  The Mone / whan it was nyght / ful bright shon
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                                  And Absolon / his gytterne / hath I-take
                                
                                  ffor paramours he þought / for to wake
                                
                                  And forth he goth / Iolyf and amerous
                                
                                  Til he cam / to the Carpenters hous
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                                  A litel after Cokkes / had I-crowe
                                
                                  And dressed him vp / by a shot wyndowe
                                
                                  That was vp-on / the Carpenteres wal
                                
                                  he syngeth in his voys / gentil and smal
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                                  Now dere lady / if thy wyl be
                                
                                  I pray ȝow / þat ȝe wol / rewe on me

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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 96
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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