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 ...

                                
                                  ¶ . Whan that the first kok / hath crow a-non
                                
                                  Vp risith this Ioly louyere / Absolon
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                                  And him arrayeth gay / at poynt deuys
                                
                                  But first he cheweth / Greynes & lycoris
                                
                                  To smellen swete / er he had kembed his heer
                                
                                  Vnder his tonge / a treweloue he ber [¶ Nota] 
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                                  ffor ther-by wend he / to be gracious
                                
                                  he rometh / to the Carpenteres hous
                                
                                  And stille he stant / vnder the shot wyndowe
                                
                                  Vn-to his brest it raught / it was so lowe
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                                  And softe he koughed / with a semy soun
                                
                                  What do ȝe honycombe / swete Alison
                                
                                  My fair brede / my swete Cinamome
                                
                                  A-waketh lemman myn / and speketh to me
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                                  Wol litel thenke ȝe / vp-on my woo
                                
                                  That for ȝoure loue / I swete there I go
                                
                                  No wonder is / though þat I swelt and swete
                                
                                  I morne as doth a lambe / after the tete
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                                  I-wysse lemman / I haue swich loue longyng
                                
                                  That like a Turtill trewe / is my murnyng
                                
                                  I may nat ete / no more than a mayde
                                
                                  ¶ . Go fro the wyndowe / Iakke fool she seyde
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                                  As help me god / it wol nat be compame
                                
                                  I loue a-nother / and ellis I were to blame
                                
                                  wel bet than the / by Ihesu Absolon
                                
                                  Go forth thy wey / or I wol cast a ston
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                                  And lete me slepe / a twenty deuel wey
                                
                                  Allas quod Absolon / and weyllawey
                                
                                  That trewloue was / euere / so yuel bysette
                                
                                  Than kisse me / sithe it may be no bette
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                                  ffor Ihesus loue / and for the loue of me
                                
                                  Wylt thow thanne go thy wey / ther-with quod she [folio 46a] 
                                
                                  Ȝa certis lemman / quod this Absolon
                                
                                  Than make the redy quod she / I come a-non
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                                   . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  This Absolon doun sette him / on his knees

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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 106
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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