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

                                
                                  That ȝif þou wreye me þou schat ben wod
                                
                                  Nay cryst forbede for hese holy blood
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                                  Quod þo this selye man I nam no labbe
                                
                                  Ne þow I seye I ne am not lef to gabbe
                                
                                  Sey what þou wylt I schal it neuere telle
                                
                                  To chyld ne wyf by hym that harwede helle
                                  Line 3512 
                                
                                  Now Iohn quod Nicholas I nyl not lye
                                
                                  I haue I-foundyn in myn astronemye
                                
                                  As I haue lokyd in the mone bryght
                                
                                  That now a moneday nest at quarter nyght
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                                  Schal falle a reyn & that so wilde & wod
                                
                                  That half so gret was neuere Noyes flod
                                
                                  This world he seyde in more thn an oure
                                
                                  Schal be drenk so hydous is the schour
                                  Line 3520 
                                
                                  Thus schal mankynde drenche & lese here lyf
                                
                                  This carpenter answerede allas myn wif
                                
                                  And schal sche drenche allas myn alysoun
                                
                                  ffor sorwe of this he fel almost a doun
                                  Line 3524 
                                
                                  And seyde is there no remedye in this cas
                                
                                  Whi ȝis for gode / quod hende Nichola
                                
                                  Ȝif þou wilt werkyn aftyr lore & red
                                
                                  Thow mayst not werkyn aftyr þyn owene red
                                  Line 3528 
                                
                                  ffor thus seyth salamon that was for trewe
                                
                                  Werk al be conseyl & þou schalt not rew
                                
                                  And ȝif þou werke wylt be good conseyl
                                
                                  I vndyrtake withoute mast or sayl
                                  Line 3532 
                                
                                  Ȝit schal I schaue here & the & me
                                
                                  Hast þou not herd how sauyd was noe
                                
                                  Whan þat oure lord hadde warnede hym beforn
                                
                                  Tha al the word with wayr schulde be lorn
                                  Line 3536 
                                
                                  Ȝis quod this carpenter ful ȝore ago
                                
                                  Hast þou not herd quod Nicholas also
                                
                                  The sorwe of Noe with hese felauschepe [folio 181a] 
                                
                                  E[r] þan he myghte gete hese wyf to schepe
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                                  Hym hadde ben lefere I dar wel vndyrtake
                                
                                  Al thilke tyme than hese wederis blake

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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 101
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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