The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  And at þe chambre dore whil þat he stood
                                
                                  he criede and knokkede as þat he were wood
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                                  What how what do ȝe mayster Nicholay
                                
                                  how may ȝe sleepen al þe longe day
                                
                                  But al for nought he herde nought a word
                                
                                  An hole he fond ful lough vpon a bord
                                  Line 3440 
                                
                                  Ther as þe catte was wont in for to creepe
                                
                                  And at þat hole he loked in ful deepe/
                                
                                  And atte last he hadde of him a sight
                                
                                  This nicholas sat euer capyng vpright
                                  Line 3444 
                                
                                  As he hadde keked on þe newe moone
                                
                                  And doun he goþ and tolde his mayster soone
                                
                                  In what array he saugh þis ilke man
                                
                                  This Carpunter to blessen him bigan
                                  Line 3448 
                                
                                  And seyde help vs seinte ffredeswide
                                
                                  A man woot litel what him schal betyde/
                                
                                  This man is falle with his astronomie
                                
                                  In som woodnesse or in som agonye
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                                  I þought ay wel how þat it scholde be
                                
                                  Men scholde not knowe of goddes priuite
                                
                                  Ȝe blessed be alwey a lewed man
                                
                                  That nought but oonly his bileeue can [folio 49a] 
                                
                                  So ferd anoþer clerk with astronomie
                                
                                  he walked in þe feeldes for to prie
                                
                                  vppon þe sterres what þer schulde bifalle
                                
                                  Til he was in a Marle pit y-falle
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                                  he saugh nought þat but ȝit by seint Thomas
                                
                                  Me reweth sore of heende Nicholas
                                
                                  he schal be rated of his studyyng
                                
                                  If þat I may by Ihesu [[MS. Ihe]]  heuene king
                                
                                  Gete me a staf þat I may vnderspore
                                
                                  Whil þat þou Robyn heuest vp þe dore
                                
                                  he schal out of his studying as I gesse
                                
                                  And to þe chambre dore he gan him dresse
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                                  his knaue was a strong carl for þe nones
                                
                                  And by þe hasp he heef it / of at oones

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 99
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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