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The Pardoner's Prologue & Tale Folio 148v 1 of 19 folios

Of bothe yiftes that I speke of now

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Men han ful often gretter harm than prow

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Hir beaute was hir deth I dar wel sayn

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Allas so pitously as she was slayn

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¶ But trewly myn owne maister dere

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This was a pitous tale for to here

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But nathales passe ouer is no force

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I prey to god so saue thi gentil corce

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And thyn vrnals and also thi Iordones

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Thin ypocras and ek thi galiones

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And euery boist ful of thi letuarye

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God blesse hem and our lady seint marye

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So mote I theen thow art a propre man

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And lik a perlate bi seint Ronian

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Seide I nat wel I can not speke in terme

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But wel I woot thow dost myn hert erme

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I haue almoost y caught a cardiacle

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Bi corpus dominus but yif I haue triacle

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Or elles a draght of moyst corny ale

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Or but I here anon a mery tale

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Myn hert is lost for pitee of this maide

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Thow belamy thow pardoner he saide

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Telle vs a tale thow canst many on

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¶ It shal be don quod he and that anon

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But first quod he here at this ale stake

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I wol first drynken and biten on a kake

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¶ But ryght anon the gentiles gonne crie

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Nay let him telle vs of no ribaudye

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Telle vs som moral thing that we may lere

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¶ Gladly quod he and seide as ye shal here

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But in the cuppe wol I me bithinke

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Vpon som honest thing whil that I drynke

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Here endeth the reheytyng of our hoost

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Here bigynneth the prologe of pardoners tale

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Lordynges quod he in chirche whan I preche

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I peyne me to haue an hauntin speche

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And rynge it out as round as goth a belle

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For I can al bi rote that I telle

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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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