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The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue Folio 215v 1 of 6 folios

For thefte and Riot thei ben conuertible

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Al konne he pleye or giterne or ribible

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Reuel and trouth as in a lough degre

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Thei ben ful wrothe al day as men may se

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¶ This Ioly prentys with his maister bood

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Til he was nygh owte of his perntys hood

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Al were he snybbed bothen erly and late

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And some tyme lad with reuel to newegate

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But atte last his Maister him bithought

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Vppon a day whan he his paper sought

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Of a prouerbe that seith this same word

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Wel bet is Roten appul out of hord

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Than that it roty al the remenant

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¶ So fareth it bi ariatours seruant

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It is ful lasse harme to late him pace

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Thanne he shende al the seruantz in the place

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Therfore his maistere yaf him acquitaunce

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And thus this Ioly prentys had his leue

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Now late him Riote al the nyght or leue

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And for ther nys no theef with outen a louke

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That helpeth him to wasten and to souke

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Of that he brybe can or borowe may

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Anon he sente his bedde and his array

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Vnto a compere of his owne soort

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That loued dys and Riot and dispoort

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And hadde a wif that heeld for contenance

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A shoppe and swyued for hir sustenance

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Here bygynneth the prologe of the Chanons yeman

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AT boughtoun vnder the blee vs gan atake

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And vnder that he wered a surples

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The hakeney eke that his yemon rod vpon

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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 19 January 2025].

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