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The Monk's Prologue Folio 188r 1 of 4 folios

that ye ben sory and repentant / of your giltes /

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910

it constreyneth me
to do you grace and mercy /

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Wherfore I receyue yow tomy g^rce

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and foryeue yow outrely alle the offences Iniuries and wron-
ges that ye han doon ageyn me and myn

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to this effect and
to this ende that god of his endeles mercy

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wol at the tyme
of our dyyng foryeue vs oure giltes that we han trespassed
to him in this wrecched world

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915

for doutelees if we be sory
and repentant of the synnes which we han trespassed in
the sight of our lord god

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he is so free and so mercyable

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that
he wol foryeue vs our giltes

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and brynge vs to the blisse that
neuer hath ende

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¶ Here endeth Chaucers tale of Melibee and prudence

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Here bigynneth the prologe of the monkes tale

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Whan ended was my tale of Melibee

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And of prudence and hir benygnytee

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Our hoost seide as I am feithful man

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And bi that percious corps Madryan

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I had leuer than a barel ale

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That good leef my wif had herd this tale

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She nys no thing of swich pacience

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As was Melibeus with prudence

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By goddes boones whanne I bete my knaues

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She bryngeth me the grete clubbed staues

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And crieth sle the dogges euerychon

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And breke hem bothe bakke and euery boon

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And yif that eny neyghbore of myn

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Wol nat in chirche to my wif enclyne

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Or be so hardy to hir to trespace

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Whan she comth she raumpeth in my face

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And crieth fals coard wreke thi wif

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By corpus boones I wol haue thi knyf

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And thow shalt haue my distaf and go spynne

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Fro day to nyght right thus shul we bygynne

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Allas she seith that euer I was shape

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To wedde a melkesop or a coward ape

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That wol ben ouerlad with euery wight

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Thow darst not stonden with thi wyues right

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This is my lif but but that I wil fighte

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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 10 September 2024].

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