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 ...

                                
                                  Vn-to a smyth / men callen daun Gerueys
                                
                                  That in his forge / smethed plough harneys
                                
                                  he sharpeth shaare / and cultur besily
                                
                                  This Absolon / knokketh / al esily
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                                  And seide / vn-do Gerueys / and that a-non [folio 46b] 
                                
                                  What who art þow / it am I Absolon
                                
                                  What Absolon / what cristes swete tre
                                
                                  Why ryse ȝe so rathe / ey benedicite
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                                  What eyleth ȝow / some gay gerle god it wote
                                
                                  hath brought ȝow thus / vp-on the veritote
                                
                                  By seynt Note / ȝe wot wel what I mene
                                
                                  This Absolon / ne rought nat a bene
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                                  Of al his pley / no word a-geyn he ȝaf
                                
                                  he had more thought / on his distaf
                                
                                  Than Gerueys knew / and seide frend so dere
                                
                                  That hote culter / in the chemyny here
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                                  As lene it me / I haue there-with to done
                                
                                  I wol bryng it the / a-geyn / ful sone
                                
                                  Gerueys answered / certes were it gold
                                
                                  Or in a poke / nobles al vn-told
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                                  Thow shuldest haue / as I am trewe smyth
                                
                                  Ey cristes foo / what wol ȝe do ther-wyth
                                
                                  There-of quod Absolon / be as be may
                                
                                  I shal wel telle it the / a-nother day
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                                  And cauth the cultur / by the hote stele
                                
                                  fful softe ouȝt at the dore / he gan to stele
                                
                                  And went vn-to / the Carpenteres wal
                                
                                  he kougheth first / & knokketh ther-with-al
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                                  vp-on the wyndowe / right as he dede ere
                                
                                  This Alison answered / who is there
                                
                                  That knokketh so / I warant it is a thefe
                                
                                  Nay nay quod he / god wot my swete lefe
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                                  I am thyn Absolon / thy derlyng
                                
                                  Of gold quod he / I haue the brouȝt a ryng
                                
                                  My moder ȝaf it me / so god me saue
                                
                                  fful ffyne it is / and ther-to wel I-graue

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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 108
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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