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

                                
                                  fful wel acordaunt to hese geternynge
                                
                                  This carpentire a-wok & herde hym synge
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                                  And spak vn to hese wyf & seyde a-non
                                
                                  What alysoun heryst not þou absalon
                                
                                  That schauntyth þus vndyr oure bouris wal
                                
                                  And sche answerde here husbonde þerwithal
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                                  Ȝis god wot Ihun I here it euerydel
                                
                                  This passeth forth what wele ȝe bet þan wel
                                
                                  ffrom day to day this Ioly Absolon
                                
                                  So wowith here þat hym is wo begon
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                                  He wakyth al the nyght & al the day
                                
                                  He kempte hese lokys brode & made hym gay
                                
                                  He wowith here be menys & procage
                                
                                  And swor he wolde ben here owene page
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                                  He syngyth brokkynge as a nyghtyngale
                                
                                  He sente here pyment mede & spicede ale
                                
                                  And waferys pipinge hote out of the glede
                                
                                  ffor sche was of tounne he proferede mede
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                                  ffor sum folk wele be wonne for richesse
                                
                                  And some for strokys & some for gentillesse
                                
                                  Sumtyme to schewe hese lyghtnesse & maystrie
                                
                                  He pleyeth heroudis vp on a skafald hye
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                                  But what auaylyth hym in þis cas
                                
                                  Sche louyth so þis hende Nicolas
                                
                                  That Absalon may blowe the bukkys horn
                                
                                  He ne hadde for al hese labour but a skorn
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                                  And sche makyth Absalon here ape
                                
                                  And al hese ernest is turnyd tyl a Iape
                                
                                  fful soth is this prouerbe it is no lye
                                
                                  Men seyth ryght þus the nyght slye
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                                  Makyth the chartere lef to be looth
                                
                                  ffor thow that absalon be wod or wroth
                                
                                  Be cause þat he fer was from here syght [folio 179a] 
                                
                                  This nyght Nicholas stod in hese lyght
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                                  Now bere the wel þou hende nycholas
                                
                                  ffor absalon may wepe & synge allas

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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 97
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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