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

                                
                                  Vn tyl a smyth men clepedyn daun Ieruys
                                
                                  That in hese forge he smethede plow harneys
                                
                                  He scharpith schar & cultyr besyly
                                
                                  This absalon knokyth al besyly
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                                  And seyde ondo Geruays & þat a-non
                                
                                  What ho art þou it am I Absalon
                                
                                  What Absalon what crystis swete tre
                                
                                  Whi ryse ȝe so rathe ey benedicyte
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                                  What eylyth ȝow sum gay gerl god it wot
                                
                                  Hath brouȝt ȝow þus vp on the merytot
                                
                                  This Absolon ne roughte not a bene
                                
                                  Be seynte note ȝe wete wel what I mene
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                                  Of al this pley no word he ne spak
                                
                                  He hadde more tow on hese rak
                                
                                  Whan geruays knew & seyde fren so dere
                                
                                  That hote cultyr in the chemene here
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                                  As lene it me I haue þerwith to done
                                
                                  I wele bryngyn it þe a-geyn ful sone
                                
                                  Gerueys answerede sertis were it gold
                                
                                  Or in a poke nobellys al ontold
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                                  Thu schuldyst haue as I am trewe smyth
                                
                                  Ey cristis foo what wele ȝe do þerwith
                                
                                  Ther-of quod Alsalon be as be may
                                
                                  I schal wel telle it þe to morwe day
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                                  And caughte þe cultyr by the colde stele
                                
                                  fful softe out at þe dore hym gan stele
                                
                                  And wente vnto þe carpenterys wal
                                
                                  He knokyth fyrst & kallyth [[corr.]]  þerwithal
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                                  Vp on þe wyndowe rygh as he dede er
                                
                                  This alysoun answerde ho is ther
                                
                                  That knokyst so I warent the a thef
                                
                                  Why nay quod he god wot myn swete lef
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                                  I am thyn absalon myn derelyng [folio 184b] 
                                
                                  Of gold quod he I haue þe brought a ryng
                                
                                  Myn modyr ȝaf it me so god me saue
                                
                                  fful fyn it is & þerto wel I-graue

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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 108
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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