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 ...

                                
                                  he auntred him / and has his nedes spedde
                                
                                  And I ly as a drafsakke / in my bedde
                                
                                  And whan this iape / is tald another day
                                
                                  I sal be halden a daffe / a Cokenay
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                                  I wyl aryse / and auntre it be my feith
                                
                                  vnhardy / is vnsely / thus men seith
                                
                                  And vp he roos / and softly he went
                                
                                  Vn-to the cradel / and in his hand it hent
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                                  And bar it softe / vn-to his beddes fete
                                
                                  ¶ . Sone after this / the wyf hire routyng lete
                                
                                  And gan a-wake / and went hire ouȝt to pisse
                                
                                  And cam a-geyn / and gan hire cradel mysse
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                                  And groped here and there / and she fond non [folio 51b] 
                                
                                  Allas quod she / I had almost mysgon
                                
                                  I had almost gon / to the Clerkes bedde
                                
                                  Ey benedicite / than had I foule spedde
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                                  And forth she goth / til she the cradil fonde
                                
                                  She gropeth alwey / ferthere with hire honde
                                
                                  And fond the bed / and þouȝt nat but good
                                
                                  By-cause that the cradil / by it stod
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                                  And nyst where she was / for it was derke
                                
                                  And faire & wele / she crepte in by the clerke
                                
                                  And lith ful stille / and wold han caught a slepe
                                
                                  with-Inne a while / this Iohn the Clerk vp lepe
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                                  And on this goode wyf / he leyd on sore
                                
                                  So mery a fit / ne had she nat ful ȝore
                                
                                  he pryketh hard / and depe / as he were mad
                                
                                  This ioly lyf / han theise two Clerkes lad
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                                  Til þat the .iij. Cok / bygan to synge
                                
                                  ¶ . Aleyn wex wery / in the morwenynge
                                
                                  ffor he had swonken / al the longe nyght
                                
                                  And seide / fare wel Malkyn / swete wyght
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                                  The day is come / I may no lengere byde
                                
                                  But euere more / where so I go or ryde
                                
                                  I is thyn owen Clerk / so haue I seele
                                
                                  ¶ . Now dere lemman quod she / go fare wele

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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 121
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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