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

                                
                                  This wol I yeuen thee / if thow me kisse
                                
                                  ¶ This Nicholas / was risen for to pisse
                                
                                  And thoghte / he wolde amenden al the Iape
                                
                                  He sholde kisse his ers / er þat he scape
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                                  And vp the wyndow / dide he hastely
                                
                                  And out his ers / he putteth pryuely
                                
                                  Ouer the buttok / to the haunche bon
                                
                                  ¶ And ther-with / spak this clerk this Absolon
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                                  Spek swete herte / I noot noght wher thow art
                                
                                  This Nicholas / anoon leet fle a fart
                                
                                  As greet as it hadde been a thonder dent
                                
                                  That with the strook he was almoost yblent
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                                  And he was redy / with his Iren hoot [folio 50a] 
                                
                                  And Nicholas / in the ers he smoot
                                
                                  Of gooth the skyn / an handbrede aboute
                                
                                  The hoote cultour / brende so his toute
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                                  That for the smert he wende for to dye
                                
                                  As he were wood / for wo he gan to crye
                                
                                  Help water / water / help for goddes herte
                                
                                  ¶ This Carpenter / out of his slomber sterte
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                                  And herde oon cryen water / as he were wood
                                
                                  And thoghte allas / now cometh Nowelys flood
                                
                                  He sette hym vp / with-oute wordes mo
                                
                                  And with his ax / he smoot the corde atwo
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                                  And down gooth al / he foond neither to selle
                                
                                  Ne breed ne ale / til he cam to the Celle
                                
                                  Vp on the floor / and there aswowne he lay
                                
                                  ¶ Vp stirte hire / Alison and Nicholay
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                                  And cryden out and harrow / in the Strete
                                
                                  The neghebores / bothe smale and grete
                                
                                  In ronnen / for to gauren on this man
                                
                                  That aswowne lay / bothe pale and wan
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                                  ffor with the fal / he brosten hadde his arm
                                
                                  But stonde he moste / vn to his owene harm
                                
                                  ffor whan he spak / he was anon bore doun
                                
                                  With hende Nicholas and Alisoun

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 109
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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