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 ...

                                
                                  That if þou wreye me / thow shalt be wode
                                
                                  Nay / criste for-bede it / for his holy blode
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                                  Quod tho this sely man / I am non labbe
                                
                                  Ne though I sey it / I nam nat lief to gabbe
                                
                                  Sey what þou wyle / I shal it neuere telle
                                
                                  To child ne wyf / by him þat harwed helle
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                                  ¶ . Now Iohn quod this Nicholas / I wol nat lye
                                
                                  I haue founden / in myn Astrologye
                                
                                  As I haue loked / in the Mone bright
                                
                                  That now on monday next / at quarter nyght
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                                  Shall fallen a reyn / and that so wylde & wood
                                
                                  That half so gret / was neuere Noes flod
                                
                                  This world he seide / in lesse than an houre
                                
                                  Shal be dreynt / so hydous is the shoure
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                                  Thus shal mankynde / drenche / & lese here lif
                                
                                  This Carpenter answered / allas my wyf
                                
                                  And shal she drenche / allas myn Alisoun
                                
                                  ffor sorwe of this / he fel almost a-doun
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                                  And seide / is there no remedye in this cas
                                
                                  We ȝis for gode / quod hende Nicholas
                                
                                  If þou wilt werken / after lore and rede
                                
                                  Thow maist nat werken / after þin owen hede
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                                  ffor thus seith Salamon / þat was ful trewe
                                
                                  werk al by counseyl / and þow shalt nat rewe
                                
                                  And if thow werken wolt / by good counsaylle
                                
                                  I vndertake / with-outen mast or saylle
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                                  Ȝet shal I saue hire / and the and me
                                
                                  hast þou nat herd / how saued was Noe
                                
                                  whanne þat oure lord / had warned him biforn
                                
                                  That al the world / with water shuld be lorn
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                                  ¶ . Ȝis quod this Carpentere / ful ȝore a-go
                                
                                  hast þou nat herd / quod Nicholas also
                                
                                  The sorwe of Noe / with his felaweshipe
                                
                                  Er that he myght gete / his wyf to shipe [folio 44a] 
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                                  hym had be leuere / I dar wel vndertake
                                
                                  At thilk tyme / than alle hise wetheres blake

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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 101
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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