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

                                
                                  He auntred hym / and has his nedes sped
                                
                                  And I lye / as a draf sek / in my bed
                                
                                  And when this Iape is tald another day
                                
                                  I sal been halde a daf a cokenay
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                                  I wil arise / and auntre it by my fayth
                                
                                  Vnhardy is vnseely / thus men sayth
                                
                                  And vp he roos / and softely he wente
                                
                                  Vn to the cradel / and in his hand it hente
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                                  And baar it softe / vn to the beddes feet
                                
                                  ¶ Soone after this / the wyf hir rowtyng leet
                                
                                  And gan awake / and wente hire out to pisse
                                
                                  And cam agayn / and gan hir cradel mysse
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                                  And groped heer and ther / but she foond noon
                                
                                  Allas quod she / I hadde almoost mysgoon
                                
                                  I hadde almoost goon / to the clerkes bed [folio 49b] 
                                
                                  Ey benedicite / thanne hadde I foule y-sped
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                                  And forth she gooth / til she the Cradel fond
                                
                                  She gropeth / alwey forther with hir hond
                                
                                  And foond the bed / and thoghte noght but good
                                
                                  By cause / that the Cradel by it stood
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                                  And nyste wher she was / for it was derk
                                
                                  But faire and wel / she creepe In to the clerk
                                
                                  And lith ful stille / and wolde han caught a sleepe
                                
                                  With-Inne a while / this Iohn the clerk vp leepe
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                                  And on this goode wyf / he leith on soore
                                
                                  So myrie a fit hadde she nat ful yoore
                                
                                  He priketh harde and soore / as he were mad
                                
                                  This ioly lyf / han thise two clerkes lad
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                                  Til that the thridde cok / bigan to synge
                                
                                  ¶ Aleyn wax wery / in the dawenynge
                                
                                  ffor he had swonken / al the longe nyght
                                
                                  And seyde / fare weel Malyne sweete wight
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                                  The day is come / I may no lenger byde
                                
                                  But eueremo / wher so I go / or ryde
                                
                                  I is thyn awen clerk swa haue I seel
                                
                                  ¶ Now deere lemman quod she / go fareweel

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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 121
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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