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 seyde / I am a lord / at alle degrees
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                                  ffor after this / I hope there cometh more
                                
                                  Lemman thy grace / and swete brede thyn ore
                                
                                  The wyndowe she vn-doth / and that in hast
                                
                                  Haue I-don quod she / come of & spede the fast
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                                  leste that oure neyghebores / the espie
                                
                                  This Alison gan wype / his mouth ful drye
                                
                                  Derke was the nyght / as pych or as the cole
                                
                                  And at the wyndowe / ouȝt she put hire hole
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                                  And Absolon him fel / neither bet ne wers
                                
                                  But with his mouth / he kiste hire naked ers [¶ Nota quid malum] 
                                
                                  fful sauerly / er he were war of this
                                
                                  A-bak he stirte / and þouȝt it was a-mys
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                                  ffor wele he wyst / a womman had no berd
                                
                                  he felt a thyng al row / and longe I-hered
                                
                                  And seide fy allas / what haue I do
                                
                                  ¶ . Te he quod she / and clapped the wyndowe to
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                                  And Absolon goth forth / a sory pace
                                
                                  A berd a berd / seide hende Nicholas
                                
                                  By goddes corpus / this goth fair & wele
                                
                                  This sely Absolon / herd euerydele
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                                  And on his lyppe / for anger he gan to byte
                                
                                  And to him self he seide / I shal the quyte
                                
                                  ¶ . Who rubbeth now / who froteth now hise lippes
                                
                                  With dust/ with sond/ with strawe/ with cloth/ with chippes
                                
                                  But Absolon that seith / ful ofte allas
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                                  My soule be-take I / vn-to Satanas
                                
                                  But me were leuere / than al this toun quod he
                                
                                  Of this dispyt / a-wreken for to be
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                                  Allas quod he / allas I ne hadde I-blent
                                
                                  his hote loue was cold / and al I-queynt
                                
                                  ffor fro þat tyme / that he had kist hire ers
                                
                                  Of paramours / ne rought he nat a kers
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                                  ffor he was heled / of his maladye
                                
                                  fful ofte paramours / he gan defye
                                
                                  And wepe / as doth a child / þat is I-bete
                                
                                  A soft pas he went him / ouer the strete

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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 107
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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