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

                                
                                     [6-text p 566] 
                                  
                                  The coles / as I tolde yow er this [folio 203a] 
                                
                                  This Chanon seyde / freend ye doon amys
                                  Line 1181 
                                
                                  This is nat couched / as it oghte be
                                
                                  But soone / I shal amenden it quod he
                                
                                  Now lat me medle ther-with / but a while
                                
                                  ffor of yow / haue I pitee by seint Gile
                                  Line 1185 
                                
                                  Ye been right hoot. I se wel how ye swete
                                
                                  Haue heer a clooth / and wipe awey the wete
                                
                                  And whils þat the preest wiped his face
                                
                                  This Chanon / took his cole with harde grace
                                  Line 1189 
                                
                                  And leyde it aboue / vp on the myddeward
                                
                                  Of the Crosselet. and blew wel afterward
                                
                                  Til that the coles / gonne faste brenne
                                
                                  ¶ Now yeue vs drynke / quod the Chanon thenne
                                  Line 1193 
                                
                                  As swithe al shal be wel I vndertake
                                
                                  Sitte we doun / and lat vs myrie make
                                
                                  And whan þat / this Chanones [[MS ns]]  Bechen cole
                                
                                  Was brent. al the lemaille out of the hole
                                  Line 1197 
                                
                                  In-to the Crosselet fil anon adoun
                                
                                  And so it moste nedes by resoun
                                
                                  Syn it so euene / abouen it couched was
                                
                                  But ther-of / wiste the preest no thyng alas
                                  Line 1201 
                                
                                  He demed alle the coles yliche good
                                
                                  ffor of that sleighte / he no thyng vnderstood
                                
                                  And whan this Alkamystre saugh his tyme
                                
                                  Ris vp quod he sire preest. and sit by me
                                  Line 1205 
                                
                                  And for I woot wel / Ingot haue I noon
                                
                                  Gooth walketh forth and brynge vs a Chalk/ stoon
                                
                                  ffor I wol make oon / of the same shape
                                
                                  That is an Ingot. if I may han hape
                                  Line 1209 
                                
                                  And bryngeth eek with yow / a bolle or a panne
                                
                                  fful of water / and ye shul se wel thanne
                                
                                  How þat oure bisynesse / shal thryue & preeue
                                
                                  And yet for ye shul han no mysbileeue
                                  Line 1213 
                                
                                  Ne wrong conceite of me / in youre Absence
                                
                                  I ne wol nat been out of youre presence

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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 563
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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