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

                                
                                     [6-text p 566] 
                                  
                                  The colis as I tolde ȝow er this
                                
                                  This chanoun seyde frend ȝe don a-mys
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                                  This is nat couched as it oughte be
                                
                                  But sone I schal amendyn it quod he
                                
                                  Now lat me medle therewith but a while
                                
                                  ffor of ȝow haue I pete be seynt gyle
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                                  ȝe been rygh hot I se wel how ȝe swete
                                
                                  Haue here a cloth & wipe awoy the weete
                                
                                  And whilis that the prest wipede his face
                                
                                  This chanoun tok his cole with sory grace
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                                  And leyde a-boue vp on the mydward
                                
                                  Of the croslet & blew wel aftyrward
                                
                                  Til that the colys begynne faste brenne
                                
                                  Now ȝeue vs drynke quod the Chanoun thānne
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                                  As swythe al schal be wel I vndirtake
                                
                                  Sitte we doun & lat vs merye make
                                
                                  And whan that this chanonys bechene cole
                                
                                  Was brent al the lemayle out of the hole
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                                  In-to the croslet fyl a-non a-doun
                                
                                  And so it muste nedis be resoun
                                
                                  Syn it so euene a-boue couchede was
                                
                                  But therofne wyste the prest allas
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                                  He demede alle the colis lyche goode
                                
                                  ffor of the sleyghte he nothyng vndyrstode
                                
                                  And whan this alcamystre saw his tyme
                                
                                  Rise vp quod he sere prest & stand by me
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                                  And for I wot weel Ingot haue ȝe non
                                
                                  Goth walkyth forth & bryngeth a chalk ston
                                
                                  ffor I wele make it of the same schap
                                
                                  That is an Ingot / ȝif I may han hap
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                                  And brynge ek with ȝow a bolle or a panne
                                
                                  fful of watyr & ȝe schul wel se thanne
                                
                                  How that oure besynesse schal thryue & preue
                                
                                  And ȝit for ȝe schal han non mys-beleue
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                                  Ne wrong conceite of me in ȝoure absence
                                
                                  I wele not ben out of ȝoure presence

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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 558
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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