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 ...

                                
                                  There as this Carpenter / is wont to lye
                                
                                  There was the reuel / and the melodye
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                                  And thus lyn Alison / and Nicholas
                                
                                  In besynesse of myrthe / and in solas
                                
                                  Til that the belle / of laudes gan to rynge
                                
                                  And freres in the chaunsel / gon synge
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                                  ¶ . This parissh Clerk / this amerous Absolon
                                
                                  That is for loue / alwey so woo-bygon
                                
                                  vp-on the monday / was at Osneye
                                
                                  with companye / him to disporte and pleye
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                                  And axed vp-on cas / a cloisterere
                                
                                  fful preuyly / after Iohn the Carpentere
                                
                                  And he drough him a-pert / ouȝt of the chirche
                                
                                  And seide I not / I saugh him here nat werche
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                                  Sithe Satirday / I trow þat he be went
                                
                                  ffor tymber / there oure Abbot hath him sent
                                
                                  ffor he is wont / for tymber for to go
                                
                                  And dwellyn at the Graunge / a day or two
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                                  Or ellis he is / at his hous certeyn
                                
                                  where that he be / I kan nat sothely seyn
                                
                                  ¶ . This Absolon / ful Ioly was and light
                                
                                  And thouȝt now is tyme / to wake al nyght
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                                  And sekirly / I saugh him nat steryng [folio 45b] 
                                
                                  Aboute his dore / sen day began to spring
                                
                                  So mot I thryue / I shal at Cokkes crowe
                                
                                  fful preuly knokken / at his wyndowe
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                                  That stant ful lowe / vp-on his boures walle
                                
                                  To Alison now / wol I tellen alle
                                
                                  My loue longyng for ȝet / I shal nat mysse
                                
                                  That at the leste weye / I shal hire kysse
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                                  Som maner comfort / shal I haue parfay
                                
                                  My mouth hath yched / al this long day
                                
                                  This is a signe / of kyssyng at the lest
                                
                                  Al nyght me mette eke / þat I was at a fest
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                                  Therfore I wyl go slepe / an houre or twey
                                
                                  And al the nyght þanne / wol I wake & pley

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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 105
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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