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The Manciple's Tale Folio 211r 1 of 8 folios

What neded it he drank ynow biforn

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And whan he had poupid in this horn

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To the Maunciple he took the grounde agayn

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And of that drynke the Cook was wonder fayn

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And thanked him in swich wise as he koude

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Thanne gan our hoost to laughen wonder loude

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And seide I se wel it is necessarie

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Where that we goon good drynke we w^t vs carie

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For that wol turne rancour and desese

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Tacorde and loue and many a wrong appese

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¶ O Bacus I blessed be thi name

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That so canst turnen ernest in to game

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Worship and thank be to thi dietee

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Of that mater ye gete no more for me .

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Telle on thi tale maunciple I the preye

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Wel syr quod he now herkeneth what I seye

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Here endeth the prologe of the Maunciple

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Here bigynneth the Maunciples tale of the crowe

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Whanne phebus dwelled here in this Erthe adoun

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As olde bookes maken mencioun

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He was the moost lusty bachilere

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In al this world and eek the best archere

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He slowe Phitoun the serpent as he lay

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Slepyng agayn the sonne vpon a day

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And many a noble worthi dede

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He with his bowe wroghte as men may rede

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¶ Pleyen he koude on euery mynstraucye

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And syngen that it was a melodye

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To heren of his cleer vois the soun

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Certes the kyng of thebes amphioun

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That with his syngyng walled the Citee

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Koude neuer syngen half so wel as he

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Therto he was the semeliest man

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That is or was sith that the world bigan

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What nedeth it his fetures to descryue

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For in this worlde was noon so faire on lyue

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He was ther with fulfilled of gentilesse

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Of honour and of parfit worthinesse

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¶ This phebus that was flour of bachelrye

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As wel in fredom as in Chyualrye

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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 19 January 2025].

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