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 ...

                                
                                     [6-text p 565] 
                                  
                                  This preest/ at þis cursed chanons biddyng
                                
                                  vpon þe fire / anon set this thyng
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                                  And blewe þe fire / and besied hym full fast/
                                
                                  And þis Chanon / in-to the Crosselet cast/
                                
                                  A poudre / note I where-of / it was [Eg. 2726 folio 232a] 
                                
                                  Ymade / outher of chalk / outher of glas
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                                  Or som-what elles / was nat worth a flie
                                
                                  To blynd with the preest / and bad hym hie
                                
                                  The coles for to couchen all aboue
                                
                                  The Crosselet/ for in tokenyng & the loue
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                                  koth this Chanon / þyn owen handes two
                                
                                  Shull werche all thyng/ þat shall here be do /
                                
                                  Graunt mercy koth the preest/ and was full glad
                                
                                  And couched cole / as þat þe chanon bad
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                                  And while he besy was / this sely wrecche
                                
                                  This fals Chanon / þe foule fende hym fecche
                                
                                  Out of his bosom / toke a bechen cole
                                
                                  In which full subtelly / was made an hole
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                                  And there-in put was/ of siluere lemaill
                                
                                  An ounce / and stopped was withouten faill
                                
                                  This hole with wexe to kepe þe lemaill in
                                
                                  And vnderstondeth / þat þis fals gyn
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                                  was nat made there / but it was made byfore
                                
                                  And other thynges / that I shall tell more
                                
                                  Here-afterward / which þat he/with hym brought
                                
                                  Or he cam there / hym to begile he thought/
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                                  And so he did or þat þey were atwynne
                                
                                  Tyll þat he hade / terued hym / coude he nat blyn
                                
                                  It dulleth me / whan þat I of hym speke
                                
                                  Of his falshede / fayn wold I me wreke
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                                  Yf I wist how / but he is here and there
                                
                                  He is so variaunt/ he abytte nowhere
                                
                                  But taketh hede / now sirs / for goddes love
                                
                                  He toke his cole / of which I spake above
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                                  And in his hande / he bare it priuelye
                                
                                  And whiles þe preest / couched beselye

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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 561
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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