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The Manciple's Prologue Folio 209v 1 of 4 folios

610

Thow shalt no more with thi flaterye

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Do me to singe and wynke with myn eye

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For he that wynketh whan that he sholde see

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Al wilfully god lat him neuer the

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¶ Nay quod the fox god yeue him meschaunce

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615

That is so vndescreet of gouernaunce

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That Iangleth whan he sholde holde his pees

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Loo swich it is for to be recchelees

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And neccligent and truste on flaterye

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¶ But ye that halden this tale a folye

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620

As of a fox or of a Cok or hen

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Taketh the moralitee good men

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For seint Poule seith / that al that writen is

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To our doctryne is I write I wis

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Taketh the fruyt and lat the chaf be stille

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625

Now good god if that it be thi wille

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As seith my lord so make vs alle good men

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And brynge vs to his hie blis Amen .

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¶ Here endeth the nonnes prestes tale

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¶ Here bigynneth the prologe of the maunciples tale .

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Woot ye nat where ther stant alitel toun

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Which that I cleped is Bobbe vp and doun

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Vnder the blee in Caunterbury wey

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There gan our hoost for to Iape and pleye

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And seide syrs / what don is in the myre

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Is ther no man for preyer ne for hire

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That wol awake our felaw al bi hynde

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A theef myght him ful lightly robbe and bynde

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Se how he nappeth / se how for Cokkes bones

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That he wol falle fro his hors attones

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Is that a Cook of londoun with meschaunce

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Do him come forth he knoweth his penaunce

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For he shal telle a tale bi my fey

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Al thogh it be nat worth a botel hey

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A wake thow Cook quod he god yeue the sorowe

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What eyleth the to slepe bi the morwe

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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 December 2024].

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