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

                                
                                  And in the flor the dore lay a-non
                                
                                  This nycholas sat ay as stylle as ston
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                                  And euere gapede vpward in to the eyre
                                
                                  This Carpenter wende he hadde 1ben in dispeyre1 [[1_1 corrected]] 
                                
                                  And hente hym by the schulderis myghtyly
                                
                                  And shok hym harde & cryede dispitously
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                                  What Nicholas what how loke adoun
                                
                                  Awake & thynk on crystis pascioun
                                
                                  I crouche the from elvys & from whitys [[corr. to whichys]] 
                                
                                  Therwith the nyght spel [[corr. to ffeel]]  a-non ryghtis
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                                  On foure haluys of the hous aboute
                                
                                  And on the throsschewald of the dore with-oute
                                
                                  Ihesu cryst & seynt benedyt
                                
                                  Blysse this hous from euery wede wygh
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                                  ffor the nyghtis verie / the white pater noster
                                
                                  Where wonyst þou now seynte peterys systyr
                                
                                  And at the laste þis hende Nicholas
                                
                                  Gan for to syke sore & seyde allas
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                                  Schal al the world ben lost eftsonys now
                                
                                  This carpente answerde what seynst þou
                                
                                  What thynk on god as men don whan þey swinke
                                
                                  This Nicholas answerde fet me drynke
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                                  And aftyr wele I speke in priuyte
                                
                                  Of serteyn thyng that touchith me & the
                                
                                  I wele telle it non oþer man certeyn
                                
                                  This carpentyr goth doun & comyth ageyn
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                                  And broughte of myghti ale a large quart
                                
                                  And whanne that eche of hem hade dronke his part
                                
                                  This Nicholas hese dore faste schette
                                
                                  And doun the Carpenter by hym he sette
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                                  And seyde Ihun myn ost lef & dere
                                
                                  Thow schat vp on thi trouthe swere me here
                                
                                  That to no wyght þou schat þis conseyl wreye [folio 180b] 
                                
                                  ffor it is crystis conseyl that I seye
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                                  And ȝif þou telle it man þou art forlore
                                
                                  ffor this veniaunce þou schat han þerfore

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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 100
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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