The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  And maken a chartre of lond / or Acquitaunce
                                
                                  In twenty manere / koude he trippe and daunce
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                                  After the scole / of Oxenford[e] tho
                                
                                  And with his legges / casten to and fro
                                
                                  And pleyen songes / on a small Rubible
                                
                                  Ther to / he song som tyme / a loud quynyble
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                                  And as wel / koude he pleye / on his giterne
                                
                                  In al the toun / nas Brewhous ne Tauerne
                                
                                  That he ne visited / with his solas
                                
                                  Ther any gaylard Tappestere was
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                                  But sooth to seyn / he was somdel squaymous
                                
                                  Of fartyng / and of speche daungerous
                                
                                  ¶ This Absolon / þat iolif was and gay
                                
                                  Gooth with a Sencer / on the haliday
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                                  Sensynge the wyues / of the parisshe faste
                                
                                  And many a louely look / on hem he caste
                                
                                  And namely / on this Carpenteris wyf
                                
                                  To loke on hire / hym thoughte a myrie lyf
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                                  She was so propre / and sweete and likerous
                                
                                  I dar wel seyn / if she hadde been a Mous
                                
                                  And he a Cat / he wold hire hente anon
                                
                                  ¶ This parissh clerk / this ioly Absolon
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                                  Hath in his herte / swich a loue longynge
                                
                                  That of no wyf / took he noon offrynge
                                
                                  ffor curteisie / he seyde he wolde noon
                                
                                  The Moone / whan it was nyght / ful brighte shoon
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                                  And Absolon / his gyterne hath ytake
                                
                                  ffor paramours / be thoghte for to wake
                                
                                  And forth he gooth / iolif and amorous
                                
                                  Til he cam / to the Carpenteres hous
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                                  A litel / after Cokkes hadde ycrowe
                                
                                  And dressed hym vp / by a shotwyndowe
                                
                                  That was / vp on the Carpenteris wal
                                
                                  He syngeth in his voys / gentil and smal
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                                  Now deere lady / if thy wille be
                                
                                  I pray yow / that ye wole thynke on me

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 96
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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