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

                                
                                  Ther as þe carpunter is wont to lye
                                
                                  Ther was þe reuel and þe melodye/
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                                  And þus lith alison and Nicholas
                                
                                  In busynesse of merþe and of solas
                                
                                  Til þat þe belle of laudes gan to rynge
                                
                                  And the freres in þe chauncell gonne synge/
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                                  This parische clerk þis amorous absolon
                                
                                  That is for loue alwey so wo bigon
                                
                                  vpon þe monday was at Osenay
                                
                                  With compaignie him to desport and play
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                                  And axed vpon caas a cloisterer
                                
                                  fful priuily after Iohn þe Carpunter
                                
                                  And he drough him a part out of þe chirche
                                
                                  And seyde I not I saugh him heere nought werche
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                                  Siþþe Saturday I trowe þat he be went
                                
                                  ffor tymber þere oure abbot haþ him sent
                                
                                  ffor he is wont for tymber for to go
                                
                                  And dwelle atte graunge a day or tuo
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                                  Or elles he is at his hous certeyn
                                
                                  Wher þat he be I can nought soþly sein
                                
                                  This absolon ful ioly was and light
                                
                                  And þoughte now is tyme to wake al nyght [folio 52a] 
                                
                                  ffor sikerly I saugh him nought styryng
                                
                                  Aboute his dore syn day bigan to spring
                                
                                  So mote I þriue I schal at cokkes crowe
                                
                                  fful priuily knokken as his wyndowe
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                                  That stant ful lowe vpon his boures walle
                                
                                  To alison now wol I tellen alle
                                
                                  My loue longyng for ȝit I schal not misse
                                
                                  That atte laste wey I schal hir kisse
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                                  Som maner comfort schal I haue par fay
                                
                                  My mouþ haþ icched al þis longe day
                                
                                  That is a signe of kissyng atte leste
                                
                                  Al night me mette eek I was at a feeste
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                                  Therfore I wol go sleepe an our or tweye
                                
                                  And al þe night þan wol I wol I wake and pleye

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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 105
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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