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

                                
                                     [6-text p 568] 
                                  
                                  Anoþer daie in Mine absence
                                
                                  This discipline and þis crafte science
                                  Line 1253 
                                
                                  Lat take anoþer vnce quod he þo
                                
                                  Of whiche siluer wiþþe outen wordes moo
                                
                                  And do þerwiþ as ȝe haue done ar þis
                                
                                  Wyþe þat oþere whiche þat nowe siluere is
                                  Line 1257 
                                
                                  This preste him besieþ in al þat he can
                                
                                  To done as þis chanone þis cursed man
                                
                                  Commandeþ him . and fast blewe þe fire
                                
                                  For to come to þeffette of his desire
                                  Line 1261 
                                
                                  And þis chanon riht in þe mene while
                                
                                  Al redi was þis preste oft to begile
                                
                                  And for a countenance in his honde bare
                                
                                  An holowe stikke take hede and be ware
                                  Line 1265 
                                
                                  In þe ende of whiche an vnce and no more
                                
                                  Of siluer lymal put was al be-fore
                                
                                  Was in his coule and stopped wiþ wax wele
                                
                                  for to kepe inne his lymal euereydele
                                  Line 1269 
                                
                                  And while þis preste was in his besinesse
                                
                                  This chanon wiþ his stike gan him dresse
                                
                                  To him a-none and his pouder kast inne
                                
                                  As he dide ere þe deuel out of his kinne
                                  Line 1273 
                                
                                  Him torne .I. praie to god for his false-hede
                                
                                  For he was euer fals in worde and dede
                                
                                  And wiþ his stikke a-boue þe croselett
                                
                                  That was ordeygned wiþ þat fals gett
                                  Line 1277 
                                
                                  He stireþ þe coles til relent gan
                                
                                  The wex aȝeine þe fire as euery man [folio 167a] 
                                
                                  Bot it a fole be; wote wele and mot nede
                                
                                  And al þat in þe hole was oute ȝede
                                  Line 1281 
                                
                                  And in to þe croselet hastely it fel
                                
                                  þe preste supposed nouht bot wele
                                
                                  Bot busid him fast and was wonder feyne
                                
                                  Supposinge nouht bot treuþe soþe to seine
                                  Line 1285 
                                
                                  He was so glad .I. can nouht expresse
                                
                                  In no manere his merþe and his gladnesse

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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 418
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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