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

                                
                                  And make a chartere of lond & aquitaunce
                                
                                  In twenty manerys coude he trippe & daunce
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                                  Aftyr the skole of Oxenforthe þo
                                
                                  And with hese leggis castyn to & fro
                                
                                  And pleyen songys on a smal rubybe
                                
                                  Therto he song sumtyme a loud quynyble
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                                  And as wel coude he pleye on a geterne
                                
                                  In al the toun nas brew hous ne tauerne
                                
                                  That he ne visityd with hese solas
                                
                                  There ony galiard tapstere was
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                                  But soth to seyn he was sumdel coymous
                                
                                  Of fartynge & of speche daungerous
                                
                                  This absalon that Ioly was & gay
                                
                                  Goth with a senser on the halyday
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                                  Sensynge þe wyuys of the parych faste
                                
                                  And manye a louely lok on hem he caste
                                
                                  And namely on þis Carpenterys wyf
                                
                                  To loke on here he thouȝte a merye lyf
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                                  Sche was so propere & swete & lycurous
                                
                                  I dar wel seyn ȝif sche hadde ben a mous
                                
                                  And he a cat he wolde here hente a-non
                                
                                  This parych clerk þis Ioly Absalon
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                                  Hath in hese herte swich a louelongynge
                                
                                  That of no wif tok he non offerynge
                                
                                  ffor curteysye he seyde he wolde non
                                
                                  The mone whan it was nyght ful bryghte it schon
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                                  And absalon hadde hese geterne take
                                
                                  ffor paramourys he thoughte for to wake
                                
                                  And forth he goth Iolyf & amerous
                                
                                  Tyl he come to þe carpenterys hous
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                                  A lytil aftyr þe cokkys hadde crowe
                                
                                  And dressede hym vp be a schot wyndowe
                                
                                  That was vp on the carpenterys wal [folio 178b] 
                                
                                  He syngyth in hese wois [[corrected]]  gentil & smal
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                                  Now dere lady ȝif thyn wille be
                                
                                  I preye ȝow that ȝe wele rewe on me

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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 96
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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