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

                                
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                                  ¶ This preest at this cursed Chanons biddyng
                                
                                  Vp on the fir/ anon sette this thyng
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                                  And blew the fir / and bisyed hym ful faste
                                
                                  And this Chanon / in-to the Crosselet cast
                                
                                  A poudre noot I wher of / that it was
                                
                                  Ymaad / ouþer of chalk or of glas
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                                  Or som what elles / was nat worth a flye
                                
                                  To blynde with the preest. and bad hym hye
                                
                                  The coles / for to couchen al aboue
                                
                                  The Crosselet. for in tokenyng I thee loue
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                                  Quod this Chanon / thyne owene handes two
                                
                                  Shul werche al thyng/. which shal heer be do
                                
                                  ¶ Graunt mercy quod the preest and was ful glad
                                
                                  And couched cole / as that Chanon bad
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                                  And while he bisy was // this feendly wrecche
                                
                                  This false Chanoun / the foule feend hym fecche
                                
                                  Out of his bosom / he took/ a Bechen cole
                                
                                  In which ful subtilly / was maad an hole
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                                  And ther-Inne / put was of siluer lemaille
                                
                                  An Ounce / and stopped was with-outen faille
                                
                                  The hole with wex / to kepe the lemaille In
                                
                                  And vnderstondeth / that this false gyn
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                                  Was nat maad ther / but it was maad bifore
                                
                                  And othere thynges / I shal tellen moore
                                
                                  Herafterward / whiche þat he with hym broghte
                                
                                  Er he cam there / hym to bigile he thoghte
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                                  And so he dide / er þat they wente atwynne
                                
                                  Til he had terned hym / he koude nat blynne
                                
                                  It dulleth me / whan that I of hym speke
                                
                                  On his falshede / fayn wolde I me wreke
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                                  If I wiste how / but he is heere and there
                                
                                  He is so variaunt / þat he abit nowhere
                                
                                  ¶ But taketh heede / now sires for goddes loue
                                
                                  He took this cole / of which I spak aboue
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                                  And in his hand / he baar it pryuely
                                
                                  And whils the preest couched bisily

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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 562
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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