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

                                
                                  There as the carpentyr is wone to lye
                                
                                  There was the reuel & the melodye
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                                  And þus lyth alysoun & Nycholas
                                
                                  In besynesse of merthe & of solas
                                
                                  Tyl þat the belle of laudis gan to rynge
                                
                                  And frerys in the schaunsel gunne synge
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                                  Thys parich clerk this Amerouse Absalon
                                
                                  That is for loue alwey so wo begon
                                
                                  Vp on the moneday was at oseneye
                                
                                  With cumpanye hym to disporte & pleye
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                                  And axede vp on cas a cloysterer
                                
                                  fful priuyly aftyr Ion the carpenter
                                
                                  And he drow hym a part out of the cherche
                                
                                  And seyde I saw here not werche
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                                  Syn satyrday I trowe that he be went
                                
                                  ffor tymbyr þere oure abbot hath hym sent
                                
                                  ffor he is wont for tymbyr for to go
                                
                                  And dwellyn at the graunge a day or too
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                                  Or ell he is at hese hous serteyn
                                
                                  Where that he be I can not sothly seyn
                                
                                  This absalon ful Ioly was & lyght
                                
                                  And thoughte now is tyme to wakyn al nygh
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                                  ffor sekyrly I say hym not sterynge
                                
                                  A-boutyn hese dore tyl day be-gan to sprynge
                                
                                  So mot I the I schal at cokkys crowe
                                
                                  fful priuyly knocke at hese wyndowe
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                                  That stant ful lowe vndyr hese bourys wal
                                
                                  To alysoun now wele I tellyn al
                                
                                  Myn loue longynge for ȝit I schal not mysse
                                
                                  That at the leste weye I schal here kysse
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                                  Sum maner confort schal I haue parfay
                                
                                  Myn mouth hath ȝechid al þis longe day
                                
                                  That is a sygne of kyssynge at the leste [folio 183a] 
                                
                                  Al nyght me mette I was at a feste
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                                  Therfore I wele go slepe an oure or tweye
                                
                                  And al the nyght þanne wele I wake & pleye

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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 105
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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