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The Physician's Tale Folio 144v 1 of 8 folios

But yif a clerk koude doon a gentil dede

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As wel as eny of yow it is no drede

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¶ Sir I relesse the thi thousand pound

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As thow right now were crope out of the ground

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Ne neuer or now ne haddest y knowen me

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For syr I wol nat take a peny of the

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900

For al my crafte ne nought for my trauaille

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Thow hast y payde wel for my vitaille

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Hit is y nough and fare wel haue good day

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And took his hors and forth he goth his way

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¶ Lordynges this questioun than wold I axe now

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Which was the moost fre as thinketh yow

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Now telleth me er that ye ferther wende

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I kan namore my tale is at an ende .

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Here bigynneth the maister of phisikes tale

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Ther was as telleth Titus Lyuyus

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A knyght that called was virginius

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Fulfild of honour and of worthinesse

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And stronge of freendes and of gret riches

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¶ This knyght a doughter had bi his wif

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And neuer had he mo in al his lif

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Faire was this mayde in excellent beaute

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Abouen euery wight that man may se

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For nature hath with souereigne diligence

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I formed hir in so gret excellence

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As though she wolde seyn lo I nature

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Thus can I forme and peynte a creature

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Whan that me list who can me contrefete

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¶ Pigmalion nat though he ay forge and bete

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Or graue or peȳte for I dar wel seyn

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Apelles zenzis shulde worke in veyn

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For that is the formour pⁱncipal

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Hath maked me his viker general

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To forme and peynten erthelich creatures

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Right as me list and ech thing in my cure is

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Vnder the moone that may wane and waxe

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And for my werke right no thing wol I axe

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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 October 2024].

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