Absolon

Nigell and Absolon, vnto the pope: whose errand when the pope had vnderstood, he commanded them to returne home, and to obeie their archbishops sentence in all things.

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (4 of 12) Stephan Earle Of Bullongne Raphael Holinshed

We see how the jolly Absolon goes to work to charm the carpenter's wife, who prefers Nicholas; he makes music under her windows, and brings her little presents; he is careful of his attire, wears "hoses rede," spreads out hair that shines like gold,

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

¶ Thus ended this yoong king in his floorishing youth, to whome through his owne iust deserts long life was iustlie denied, sith he delighted to begin his gouernement with vnlawfull attempts, as an other Absolon against his owne naturall father, seeking by wrongfull violence to pull the scepter out of his hand.

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed

Miller: story of Absolon, Nicholas and Alisoun the carpenter's wife, source unknown.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

The 'smalé' Ribible, which Absolon, the parish clerk in

Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900

Another, plunged up to his middle in earth and stretching out despairing arms, was _Chore_, not _Ophiuchus_, and a third, hung by his hair to a snaky tree, was _Absolon_.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories 1899

We have the picture, then, of the mediæval clerk in his little house nigh the church surrounded by his wife and children, or as a bachelor intent upon preferment poring over his Missal, if he did not sometimes emulate the frivolous feats of Chaucer's "Jolly Absolon."

The Parish Clerk 1892

Chaucer's gallery of ancient portraits contains a very life-like presentment of a mediæval clerk in the person of "Jolly Absolon," a somewhat frivolous specimen of his class, who figures largely in _The

The Parish Clerk 1892

Absolon with disheveled heres smale, lyke to a prysoner of saynt Malowes, [1] _a sonny busshe able to the galowes_.

Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Absolon w_i_t_h_ disheveld heres smale, 460 lyke to a prysoner of saynt malowes,

Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867