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 ...

                                
                                  This wol I ȝeue the / if thow me kysse
                                
                                  ¶ . This Nicholas / was risen vp / to pysse
                                
                                  He thought he wolde amende / al the Iape
                                
                                  he shulde kysse hise ars / er that he skape
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                                  And vp the wyndowe / he dide hastily
                                
                                  And ouȝt his ers / he putteth preuyly
                                
                                  Ouer the buttok / to the haunche bon
                                
                                  And ther-with spak this Clerk / this Absolon
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                                  Speke swete brede / I not where thow art
                                
                                  ¶ . This Nicholas a-non / let flee a fart
                                
                                  As gret as it had ben / a thonder dynt
                                
                                  That with the stroke / he was almost I-blynt
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                                  And he was redy / with his Iren hote [folio 47a] 
                                
                                  And Nicholas / in the ars he smote
                                
                                  Of goth the skyn / an hanbrede a-boute
                                
                                  The hote cultur / brent so his toute
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                                  That for the smert / he wend for to dye
                                
                                  As he were wode / for woo he gan to crye
                                
                                  help / water water / help for goddes hert
                                
                                  ¶ . This Carpenter / ouȝt of his slomer stert/
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                                  And herd on crye water / as he were wode
                                
                                  And seide allas / now cometh Noes fflode
                                
                                  he sette him vp / with-oute wordes moo
                                
                                  And with his ax / he smote the corde a-two
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                                  And doun goth al / he fond neither to selle
                                
                                  Brede ne Ale / tyl he cam to the Celle
                                
                                  vp-on the flor / and there a swouȝne he lay
                                
                                  Vp stirt hire Alison / and Nicholay
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                                  And crieden ouȝt / and herrowe / in the strete
                                
                                  The neyghebores / bothe smale and grete
                                
                                  In ronnen / for to gawren / on this man
                                
                                  That in swownyng lay / bothe pale and wan
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                                  ffor with the fal / he broken had his arme
                                
                                  But stonde he must / vn-to his owen harme
                                
                                  ffor whan he spak / he was a-non born doun
                                
                                  With hende Nicholas / and Alisoun

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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 109
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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