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

                                
                                  Whan þat þe ferste cok haþ crowe anon
                                
                                  vp rist þis Ioly louer absolon
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                                  And him arrayeþ gay and poynt/ deuyse
                                
                                  But ferst he cheweþ grayn and likorise
                                
                                  To smellen swoote or he hadde kempt his here
                                
                                  vnder his tonge a trewe loue he beere/
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                                  ffor þer-by wende he to be gracious
                                
                                  he rowmeth to þe carpenteres hous
                                
                                  And stille he stant vnder þe schot wyndowe
                                
                                  vnto his brest it raught it was so lowe/
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                                  And softe he coughed wiþ a semy soun
                                
                                  What do ȝe hony combe swete alisoun
                                
                                  My faire brid my sweete synamome/
                                
                                  Awaketh lemman myn and spekeþ to me
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                                  We[l] litel þenken ȝe vpon my woo
                                
                                  That for ȝoure loue I swete as I go
                                
                                  No wonder is þough þat I swelte and swete
                                
                                  I morne as doþ þe lambe after þe teete
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                                  I-wys lemman I haue such loue longyng
                                
                                  That lik a turtel trewe is my moornyng
                                
                                  I may not ete namore þan a mayde/
                                
                                  Go fro þe wyndow Iakke fool sche sayde [folio 52b] 
                                
                                  As help me god it wil not be com pame/
                                
                                  I loue anoþer and elles I were to blame/
                                
                                  Wel bette þan þe by Ihesu absolon
                                
                                  Go forþ þi wey or I wil caste a stoon
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                                  And lete me slepe a twenty deuel way
                                
                                  Allas quod absolon and weyloway
                                
                                  That trewe loue was euer so yuel besette/
                                
                                  Than kisse me syn it may be no bette/
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                                  ffor ihesus loue and for þe loue of me
                                
                                  Wolt þou þan go þi way þer-with quod sche
                                
                                  Ye certes lemman quod þis absolon
                                
                                  Than make þe redy quod sche I come anon
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                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  This absolon doun sette him on his knees

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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 106
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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