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

                                
                                  And so bifel it on a Saterday
                                
                                  This Carpenter / was goon til Osenay
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                                  And hende Nicholas and Alisoun
                                
                                  Acorded been / to this conclusioun
                                
                                  That Nicholas / shal shapen hym a wyle
                                
                                  This sely Ialous housbonde to bigyle
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                                  And if so be / the game wente aright
                                
                                  She sholde slepen / in his arm al nyght
                                
                                  ffor this was / his desir / and hire also
                                
                                  And right anon / with-outen wordes mo
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                                  This Nicholas / no lenger wolde tarie
                                
                                  But dooth ful softe / vn to his chambre carie
                                
                                  Bothe mete and drynke / for a day or tweye
                                
                                  And to hire housbonde / bad hire for to seye
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                                  If that he axed / after Nicholas
                                
                                  She sholde seye / she nyste where he was
                                
                                  Of al that day / she saugh hym nat with eye [folio 41a] 
                                
                                  She trowed / that he was in maladye
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                                  ffor / for no cry / hir mayde koude hym calle
                                
                                  He nolde answere / for thyng that myghte falle
                                
                                  ¶ This passeth forth / al thilke Saterday
                                
                                  That Nicholas / stille in his chambre lay
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                                  And eet and sleepe / or dide what hym leste
                                
                                  Til Sonday / that the sonne gooth to reste
                                
                                  ¶ This sely Carpenter / hath greet merueyle
                                
                                  Of Nicholas / or what thyng myghte hym eyle
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                                  And seyde / I am adrad by Seint Thomas
                                
                                  It stondeth nat aright with Nicholas
                                
                                  God shilde / that he deyde sodeynly
                                
                                  This world / is now ful tikel sikerly
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                                  I saugh to day / a cors yborn to chirche
                                
                                  That now / on monday last / I saugh hym wirche
                                
                                  ¶ Go vp quod he / vn to his knaue anoon
                                
                                  Clepe at his dore / or knokke with a stoon
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                                  Looke how it is / and tel me boldely
                                
                                  ¶ This knaue / gooth him vp ful sturdily

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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 98
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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