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

                                
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                                  Another day / in myn absence [Lichfield MS folio 181a] 
                                
                                  This discipline / and þis crafty science
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                                  ¶ Lat take anoþer ounce quod he tho
                                
                                  Of quik siluer / withoute wordes mo
                                
                                  And do therwith / as ȝe haue done er þis
                                
                                  With þat other / þat now siluer is
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                                  This preest him besieth / in al þat he can
                                
                                  To done as þis Chanon / þis cursed man
                                
                                  Commaundeth him / an faste blew þe fire
                                
                                  ffor to come to the effecte / of his desire
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                                  And this chanon / right in þe mene while
                                
                                  Al redy was / þis preest eft to begile
                                
                                  And for a countenance / in his hond he bar
                                
                                  An holgh stikke / take hede and be war
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                                  In þe ende of which / an ounce and no more
                                
                                  Of siluer lymayle / put was al bifore
                                
                                  As was his cole / and stopped with wax wel
                                
                                  ffor to kepe in / his lymayle euerydeel
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                                  And whiles þis preest/ was in his besynesse
                                
                                  This Chanon with his stikke / gan him dresse
                                
                                  To him anoon . and his pouder cast In
                                
                                  As he dide er / þe deuel out of his skyn
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                                  him torne / I pray to god / for his falshede
                                
                                  ffor he was euere fals / in word and dede
                                
                                  And with his stikke / aboue þe crosse[le]tte
                                
                                  That was ordeined / with þat false gette
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                                  He stereth the coles / til relente gan
                                
                                  The wax a-geyn the fire / as euery man
                                
                                  But it a fool be / woot wel and moot nede
                                
                                  And al that in the hole was / out ȝede
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                                  And in to the crosselet / hastely it fel
                                
                                  The preest supposed / no þing but wel
                                
                                  But besied him faste / and was wonder fayn
                                
                                  Supposinge noght but trouthe / sothe for to sayn
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                                  He was so glad / I can it not expresse
                                
                                  In no manere / his merthe and his gladnesse

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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 #735
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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