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 ...

                                
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                                  The coles / as I told you / or this
                                
                                  This Chanon seid frend / ye don amys
                                  Line 1181 
                                
                                  This is nat couched / as it ought to be
                                
                                  But sone I shall amenden it/ koth he
                                
                                  Now let me medle there-with / but a while
                                
                                  ffor of yow haue I pitee / by seint Gyle
                                  Line 1185 
                                
                                  Ye ben right hote / I se wele how ye swete
                                
                                  Haue here a cloth / and wipe awey þe wete
                                
                                  And whiles that the preest/ wyped his face [Eg. 2726 folio 232b] 
                                
                                  This Chanon toke his cole / with sory grace
                                  Line 1189 
                                
                                  And leid it aboue / vp-on þe mydward
                                
                                  vp-on the Crosselet/ and blew wele afterward
                                
                                  Tyll that þe coles / gan fast brenne
                                
                                  Now yeve vs drynk/ koth þe Chanon thenne
                                  Line 1193 
                                
                                  As swythe / all shall be wele I vndertake
                                
                                  Sitte we doun / and let vs mery make
                                
                                  And whan that this Chanons / bechen cole
                                
                                  was brent/ all þe lemaill/ out of þe hole
                                  Line 1197 
                                
                                  In-to þe Croselet / fell anoon adoun
                                
                                  And so it most nedes be / by resoun
                                
                                  Sen it so even aboue / it couched was
                                
                                  But there-of wist þe preest/ no-thyng allas /
                                  Line 1201 
                                
                                  He demed all coles eliche gode
                                
                                  ffor of þat sleight/ he no-thing vnderstode
                                
                                  And whan this / Alcamistre sawe his tyme
                                
                                  Rise vp koth he sir preest/ and sit by me
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                                  And for I wote wele Ingot/ haue we noon
                                
                                  Goth forth/ walketh / and bryng vs a chalk stoon
                                
                                  ffor I woll make / of þe same shappe
                                
                                  That is an yngot / yf I may haue happe
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                                  And bryngeth eke with you / a bolle or a pan
                                
                                  ffull of water / and ye shull see wele þan
                                
                                  How þat our besynesse / shall thryve or preeve
                                
                                  And yitte for ye shull haue no mysbyleve
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                                  Ne wrong conceyt of me in your absence
                                
                                  I ne woll nat bene out/ of your presence

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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 562
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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