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

                                
                                  And seyde I am a lord at alle degreis
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                                  ffor aftyr this I hope þere comyth more
                                
                                  leman thyn grace & swete bryd þyn ore
                                
                                  The wyndowe sche ondoth & that in haste
                                
                                  Haue don quod sche come of & sped þe faste
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                                  Lest that thyn neyhebouris þe aspye
                                
                                  This absalon gan wype his mouth ful drye
                                
                                  Derk was the nyght as pouche or as the cole
                                
                                  And out at the wyndowe sche putte here ars hole
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                                  And absalon fel neyþer bet noþer wers
                                
                                  But with hese mouth he kyste here nakede ars
                                
                                  fful sauourly er he were war of this
                                
                                  A bakke he styrte & thouthe it was a mys
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                                  ffor wel he wiste a woman hadde no berd
                                
                                  He felte a thyng al row & long I-heryd
                                
                                  And seyde fy allas what haue I do
                                
                                  Te he quod sche & claptte here wyndowe to
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                                  And absalon goth forth a sory pas
                                
                                  A berd a berd quod hynde Nicholas
                                
                                  Bi goddis corpus this goth fayre & wel
                                
                                  This sely absalon herde euerydel
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                                  And on his lippe he gan for angyr bite
                                
                                  And to hym self he seyde I schal þe quyte
                                
                                  Who rubbyth now ho frotyth now hese lippis
                                
                                  With dust with sond with straw with cloth with schippis
                                
                                  But absolon þat seyth ful ofte allas
                                
                                  Myn soule be-take I onto saternas
                                
                                  But me were betere þan al this toun quod he
                                
                                  Of þis dispyt a-wrokyn for to be
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                                  Allas quod he allas why ne hadde I bleynt
                                
                                  Hese hote loue was cold & al I-queynt
                                
                                  ffor from that tyme that he hadde kyst his ers
                                
                                  Of paramour he sette not a kres
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                                  ffor he was heled of hese maladye [folio 184a] 
                                
                                  fful ofte paramouris he gan defye
                                
                                  And wepte as doth a chyld þat is I-bete
                                
                                  A softe pas he wente ouer the strete

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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 107
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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