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The Cook's Prologue Folio 214v 1 of 2 folios

Kepe wel thi tonge and thenke vpon the crowe

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Here endeth the tale of the Maunciple

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Here bigynneth the prologe of the cookes tale

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Tthe Cook of loundoun while the Reue spak

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For ioye him thoght he clawed him on the bak

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A ha quod he for cristes passioun

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This Miller hadde a sharpe conclusioun

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Vpon his argumentz of herbergage

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Wel seide salamon in his langage

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Ne brynge nat euery man in to thin hous

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For herberwyng bi nyght is perilous

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Wel aught a man auysed for to be

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Whom that he brought in to his pⁱuete

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I praye to god so yeue me sorowe and care

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If euer sith I hight hogge of ware

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Herd I a meller better I set of a Clerk

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He hadde a Iape of malice in the derk

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But god forbede that I stynte here

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And therfore yif ye vouche saf to here

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A tale of me that am a pore man

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I wil telle as wel as euer I can

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A litel Iape that fil in our Citee

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¶ Our hoost answerd and seide I graunt it the

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Now telle on Rogger loke that it be good

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For many a paste hastow late blood

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And many a Iak of douer hastow soold

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That hath ben twies hoot and twies coold

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Of many a pilgryme hastow cristes curs

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For of thi parsle yit thei fare the wors

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That thei han eten in thi stubbul gos

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For in thi shoppe is many a flie loos

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Now telle on gentil Rogger bi thi name

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But I praye yit the be nat wroth for game

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A man may sey ful sooth in game and pleye

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Thow seist ful soth quod Rogger bi my feye

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Buth sooth pleye quade pleye as the flemmyng seith

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And ther fore henry bailly bi thi feith

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Be thou noght wroth er we departe here

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Thogh that my tale be of an hostelere

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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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