The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  And swor here oth be seynt Thomays of kent
                                
                                  That he wolde ben at hese comaundement
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                                  Whan þat sche may here layser wel asspye
                                
                                  Myn husbonde is so ful of Ielousye
                                
                                  That but ȝe waite wel & ben priue
                                
                                  I wot ryght wel I am but ded quod sche
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                                  Ȝe muste ben ful derne as in þis cas
                                
                                  Nay þerof care ȝe not quod Nicholas
                                
                                  A clerk hadde lethyrly be-set hese while
                                
                                  But ȝif he coude a carpenter be-gyle
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                                  And þus they ben acordit & I-sworn
                                
                                  To wayte a tyme as I haue told be-forn
                                
                                  Whan Nicholas hadde don þis euery del
                                
                                  An thakkede here a-boute the lendis wel
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                                  He kyssith here swete & takyth hese sautrye
                                
                                  And pleyeth faste & makyth melodye
                                
                                  Thanne fel it thus þat to þe parich cherche
                                
                                  Crystys owene werkys for to werche
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                                  This goode wyf wente on an haly day
                                
                                  Here forehed schon as bryght as ony day
                                
                                  So was it wasschyn whan sche let here werk
                                
                                  Now was þere of that cherche a parysch clerk
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                                  The wheche þat was clepid absolon
                                
                                  Crol was hese her & as þe gol it schon
                                
                                  And strut as a fan large & brod
                                
                                  fful streyt & euene lay hese Ioly schod
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                                  His rode was red hese eyȝyn greye as gos
                                
                                  With poulys wyndow I-korwyn on hese schois
                                
                                  In hosyn rede he wente fetusly
                                
                                  I-clad he was ful smal & properly
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                                  Al in a kyrtel of a lyght vachet
                                
                                  fful fayre & thikke . ben the poyntis set
                                
                                  And þerupon he hadde a gay surplys [folio 178a] 
                                
                                  As whit as is the blome on the rys
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                                  A merye chyld he was so god me saue
                                
                                  Wel coude he letyn blod & wel schaue

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 95
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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