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 þou wolt seyn / heyl Maister Nicholay
                                
                                  Good morwe / I se the wele / for it is day
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                                  And þanne shuln we / be lordes all oure lyf
                                
                                  Of al the world / as Noe and his wyf
                                
                                  But of o thyng / I warne the ful right [folio 44b] 
                                
                                  Be we a-vysed / on that ilke nyght
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                                  That we ben entred / in-to shippes bord
                                
                                  That non of vs / speke nat a word
                                
                                  Ne clepe ne crie / but ben in his prayere
                                
                                  ffor it is / goddis / owen heste dere
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                                  Thy wyf and thow / mot hange fer a-twynne
                                
                                  ffor that betwixe ȝow / shal be no synne
                                
                                  No more in lokyng / than there shal in dede
                                
                                  This ordynance is seid / so god the spede
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                                  To-morwe at nyght / when men ben alle a-slepe
                                
                                  In-to our kneding tubbes / wol we crepe
                                
                                  And sitten there / a-bidyng goddis grace
                                
                                  Go now thy wey / I haue no lengere space
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                                  To maken of this / no lengere sermonynge
                                
                                  Men seyn thus / sende the wyse / & sey no thynge [¶ Mitte sa|pientem &c] 
                                
                                  Thou art so wys / it nedeth the nought to teche
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                                  Go saue oure lyf / and that I the byseche
                                
                                  ¶ . This sely Carpenter / goth forth his wey
                                
                                  fful ofte he seide / allas and wellawey
                                
                                  And to his wyf / he told his preuyte
                                
                                  And she was war / and knewe it bet than he
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                                  what al þis queynt cas / was for to sey
                                
                                  But natheles / she ferd as she wold dey
                                
                                  And seide allas / go forth thy weye a-non
                                
                                  help vs to skape / or we ben ded ichon
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                                  I am thy trewe / verray wedded wyf
                                
                                  Go dere spouse / and help to saue oure lyf
                                
                                  lo whiche a gret thyng / is affeccion [¶ Auctor] 
                                
                                  Men moun deyen / of ymaginacion
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                                  So depe / may impression be take
                                
                                  This sely Carpenter / begynneth quake

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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 103
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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