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The Nun's Priest's Tale Folio 201r 1 of 18 folios

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Bi heuene kyng that for vs alle dide

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Where as a man may haue non audience

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And wel I wote the substance is in me

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Nay quod the monke I haue no luste to playe

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Now lat another telle as I haue tolde

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Telle vs swich thing as may our hertes glade

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Yis sir quod he / yis hoost so mote I go

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Sithen thilke day that she wast last a wif

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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 10 September 2024].

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