The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  And þou wilt seine haile Maister Nicholay
                                
                                  Gode morne .I. see þe wele for it is daye
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                                  And þan schal we be lordes al oure lif.
                                
                                  Of al þe werlde as Noe and his wif.
                                
                                  Bot þat of o þinge .I. warne þe ful riht [folio 44b] 
                                
                                  Bene wele avised vpon þat ilke nyht
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                                  þat we bene entrede in to schippes borde
                                
                                  þat none of vs ne speke nouht a worde
                                
                                  Ne clepe ne crye bot bene in his praiere
                                
                                  ffor it is goddes owen heste dere
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                                  Thi wif and þou moste honge fer a twynne
                                
                                  ffor þat betwox ȝow schal be no sinne
                                
                                  Ne more in lokeinge þan þer schall in dede
                                
                                  This ordenance is seide go god þe spede
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                                  To morwe att nyht whan men bene al aslepe
                                
                                  Into owre knedeinge tubbes wil we crepe
                                
                                  And sitten þere a-bideinge goddes grace
                                
                                  Go nowe þi weie .I. haue no longer space
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                                  To make of þis no longer sermoneinge
                                
                                  Men seine þus . Sende þe wise and sei no þinge
                                
                                  Thow ert so wise it nedeþ þe nouht teche
                                
                                  Go saue owre lif and þat .I. þe beseche.
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                                  ¶ This sely Carpentier goþ forþ his weie
                                
                                  fful of of he seide . alas and waleweie
                                
                                  And to his wif he tolde his priuete
                                
                                  And sche was warre and knewe it bet þan he
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                                  What all þis queynte cast was for to seie
                                
                                  Bot Natheles sche ferd as sche wold deie
                                
                                  And seide alas go forþe þi weie anone
                                
                                  Helpe vs to scape or we bene dede iche oon
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                                  .I. am þi trewe verrei wedded wif
                                
                                  Go dere spouse and helpe to saue oure lif
                                
                                  ¶ Loo whiche a grete þinge is affection
                                
                                  Men may deie of ymaginacione
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                                  So depe maye impressione be take
                                
                                  This seli Carpentier beginneþ qwake

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 103
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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