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 568] 
                                  
                                  Another day assay / in myn absence
                                
                                  This disciplyne / and þis crafty science
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                                  let take another ounce / koth he tho
                                
                                  Of qwyk-siluere / with-out wordes mo
                                
                                  And do there-with / as ye haue don or this
                                
                                  with þat other / which þat now siluer is
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                                  This preest hym besieth in all þat he can
                                
                                  To don as þis Chanon / this cursed man
                                
                                  Commaunded hym / and fast blew the fire
                                
                                  ffor to com to theffect / of his desire
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                                  And þis Chanon / right in þe mene while
                                
                                  All redy was / this preest/ efte to begyle
                                
                                  And for a a countenaunce / in his hande he bare
                                
                                  An holowen styk / take kepe and beware
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                                  In þe ende of which / an once and no more
                                
                                  Of siluer lemaill / put was / as byfore
                                
                                  Was in his cole / and stopped with wex wele
                                
                                  ffor to kepe in his lemaill euery dele.
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                                  And while this preest/ was in his besynesse [Eg. 2726 folio 233b] 
                                
                                  This Chanon with his styk/ gan hym dresse /
                                
                                  To hym anon / and his poudre cast in /
                                
                                  As he dyd ere / þe devyll out of his skyn
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                                  Hym terne / I pray to god for his falshede
                                
                                  ffor he was fals / in euery thyng/ and dede
                                
                                  And with his styk/ aboue þe Crosselet/
                                
                                  That was ordeyned / with þat fals get/
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                                  He stered the coles / till relent gan
                                
                                  The wexe ayeinst the fire / as euery man
                                
                                  But it a fole be / wote wele þat it mot nede
                                
                                  And all þat in the styk/ was out yede
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                                  And in þe Crosselette hastely fell/
                                
                                  Now gode sirs / what woll ye bet þan well
                                
                                  Whan þat þis preest/ was þus begiled ayein
                                
                                  Supposyng nat but trouth / þe soth to seyn
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                                  He was so glad / þat I can nat expresse
                                
                                  In no manere / his merth/ and his gladnesse

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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 564
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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