| | And alison ful softe doun she spedde | |
| | Withoute wordis mo they go to bedde | |
| | Eche gan other in armes plye | |
| | There was the reuel and the melodye | |
| | And thus lieth alison and Nicholas | |
| | In besines of myrthe and solas | |
| | Tyl that the belle of laudes gan to rynge | |
| 470 | And freris in the chauncel gan to synge | |
| | This parish clerk this absoson | |
| | That is for loue alwey so wo be gon | |
| | Vp on the monday was at Oseney | |
| | With a companye hym to disport and pley | |
| 475 | And askid vpon a caas a cloisterer | |
| | Ful pryuely aftir Iohn the Carpenter | |
| | And he drew hym a part out of the chirche | |
| | And sayde I not I saw hym here not wirche | |
| | Sith satirday I trow that he be went | |
| 480 | For tymbir that our abbot hath hym sent | |
| | For he is wont for tymbir for to go | |
| | And dwelle at the graunge aday or two | |
| | Or ellis he is at his hous certeyn | |
| | Where that he be I can not sothly sayn | |
| 485 | This absolon ful ioly was and light | |
| | And thoughte now is tyme to wake al nyght | |
| | For sikirly y saw hym not steryng | |
| | Aboute his dore syn day gan to sprynge | |
| | So moot y thryue y shal or cockis crowe | |
| 490 | Pryuely knocken at his wyndow | |
| | That stont ful lowe vp on his bowris wal | |
