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 at the chaumbre dore / while þat he stode
                                
                                  he cryed and knokked / as he were wode
                                  Line 3436 
                                
                                  what how / what do ȝe / Maister Nicholay
                                
                                  how may ȝe slepen / al the long day
                                
                                  But al for nouȝt / he seide nat a worde
                                
                                  An hole he fond / ful lowe vp-on the borde
                                  Line 3440 
                                
                                  There as the Cat / was wont / In / for to crepe
                                
                                  And at that hole / he loked In / ful depe
                                
                                  And at the last / he had of him a sight
                                
                                  This Nicholas sat euere / gapyng vp-right
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                                  As he had loked / on the newe Mone
                                
                                  A-doun he goth / and telleth his maister sone
                                
                                  In what array / he saugh this ilke man
                                
                                  ¶ . This Carpenter / to blissen him / bygan
                                  Line 3448 
                                
                                  And seide / helpe vs / seynt ffredeswyde
                                
                                  A man wot litel / what hym shal betyde [folio 43a] 
                                
                                  This man is fallen / with his Astronomye
                                
                                  In som woodnesse / or in som Agonye
                                  Line 3452 
                                
                                  I thought ay wele / how that it shulde be
                                
                                  Men shuld nat knowe / of goddis preuyte
                                
                                  Ȝa blissed be alwey / a lewed man
                                
                                  That nought but only / his byleue can
                                  Line 3456 
                                
                                  So ferde a-nother clerk / with his Astronomye
                                
                                  he walked in the feldes / for to prye
                                
                                  Vp-on the sterres / what there shuld byfalle
                                
                                  Til þat he / in a marle pyt / was falle
                                  Line 3460 
                                
                                  he saw nat that / but ȝet be Seynt Thomas
                                
                                  Me reweth sore / of hende Nicholas
                                
                                  he shal be ratid / of his studiyng
                                
                                  If þat I may / be Ihesus heuene kyng
                                  Line 3464 
                                
                                  Get me a staf / that I may vnder pore
                                
                                  while þat þow Robyn / heuest of the dore
                                
                                  he shal ouȝt of his studiyng / as I gesse
                                
                                  And to the chaumbre dore / he gan him dresse
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                                  his knaue was a strong Carl / for the nones
                                
                                  And by the haspe / he haf it of at ones

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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 99
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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