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The Franklin's Tale Folio 132v 1 of 24 folios

Here bigynneth the frankeleyns tale .

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Thise olde gentil bretons in hir dayes

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Of diuerse auentures maden layes

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Rymed in hir first briton tonge

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Which layes wyth hir Instrumentz thei songe

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Or elles redden hem for hir plesaunce

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And oon of hem haue I in remembraunce

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Which I shal seyn wyth good wille as I kan

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But syres bi cause I am a burel man

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At my bigynnyng first I yow beseche

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Haue me excused of my rude speche

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I lerned neuer rethorik certeyn

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Thing that I speke mote be bare and pleyn

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I sleep neuer in the mount of parnaso

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Ne lerned neuer Marcus Tullius Sithero

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Colours ne koude I noon wyth outen drede

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But swich colours as growen in the mede

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Or elles swich as men dye or peynte

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Colours of Rethorik ben to queynte

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My spirit feleth nat of swich matere

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But yif yow list my tale shul ye here .

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Vnde persius ¶ Nec fronte labra prolui caballino n^c in bicipite parnaso me memini sompniasse .

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IN armorik that called is brytayn

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Ther was a knyght that loued and did his payn

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To serue a lady in his best wise

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And many a labour many a gret emprise

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He for his lady wroght er she were wonne

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For she was oon the fairest vnder sonne

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And ek ther to come of so hie kynrede

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That wel vnnethes dorst this knyght for drede

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Telle hir his wo his peyne and his distresse

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But atte laste she for his worthinesse

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And namely for his meke obeisaunce

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Hath swich a pitee caught of his penaunce

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That priuely she fel of his acord

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To take him for hir husbond and hir lord

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The Multitext Edition is developed by the Digital Humanities Institute at The University of Sheffield in collaboration with Estelle Stubbs, Michael Pidd, Orietta Da Rold, Simon Horobin, Claire Thomson and Linda Cross.

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Stubbs, Estelle, Michael Pidd, Orietta Da Rold, Simon Horobin and Claire Thomson with Linda Cross, eds. (2013). The Multitext Edition. The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales. Published by: University of Sheffield. Available at: <http://www.chaucermss.org/multitext> [Accessed 14 October 2024].

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