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

                                
                                  Vn til a smyth / men cleped daun Gerueys
                                
                                  That in his forge / smythed plough harneys
                                
                                  He sharpeth shaar / and kultour bisily
                                
                                  This Absolon / knokketh al esily
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                                  And seyde / vndo Gerueys / and that anon
                                
                                  ¶ What who artow? I am heere Absolon
                                
                                  What Absolon / for Cristes swete tree
                                
                                  Why rise ye so rathe / ey benedicitee
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                                  What eyleth yow / som gay gerl god it woot
                                
                                  Hath broght yow thus / vp on the viritoot
                                
                                  By seinte note / ye woot wel what I mene
                                
                                  ¶ This Absolon / ne roghte nat a bene
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                                  Of al his pley / no word agayn he yaf
                                
                                  He hadde / moore tow / on his distaf
                                
                                  Than Gerueys knew / and seyde freend so deere
                                
                                  That hoote kultour / in the chymenee heere
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                                  As lene it me / I haue ther-with to doone
                                
                                  And I wol / brynge it thee / agayn ful soone
                                
                                  ¶ Gerueys answerde / certes were it gold
                                
                                  Or in a poke / nobles alle vntold
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                                  Thou sholdest have / as I am trewe smyth
                                
                                  Ey cristes foo / what wol ye do ther-with?
                                
                                  ¶ Ther of quod Absolon / be as be may
                                
                                  I shal wel telle it thee / to morwe day
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                                  And caughte the kultour / by the colde stele
                                
                                  fful softe / out at the dore he gan to stele
                                
                                  And wente / vn to the Carpenteris wal
                                
                                  He cogheth first / and knokketh ther with al
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                                  Vp on the wyndowe / right as he dide er
                                
                                  ¶ This Alison answerde / Who is ther?
                                
                                  That knokketh so / I warante it a theef
                                
                                  ¶ Why nay quod he / god woot my sweete leef
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                                  I am thyn Absolon / my deerelyng
                                
                                  Of gold quod he / I haue thee broght a ryng
                                
                                  My mooder yaf it me / so god me saue
                                
                                  fful fyn it is / and ther-to wel ygraue

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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 108
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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