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The Reeve's Tale Folio 38r 1 of 11 folios

Round was his face and camysed was his nose

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And piled as an ape was his sculle

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It was a market beter atte fulle

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Ther dorste no wyght hand vpon him lagge

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That he ne swoor he sholde anon abigge

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A theef he was for sothe of corne and mele

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And that a slygħ and vsant for to Stele

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His name was whoten deynnous Symkyn

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A wyfe he had comen of noble kyn

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The person of the toun hir fadre was

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Wyth hir he yaf ful many a panne of bras

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For that Symkyn sholde in his blood allye

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She was yfostred in a Nonnerye

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But she were wel norisshed and a mayde

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To sauen his estate of yemanrye

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And she was proude and pert as a pye

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A ful faire sight was it vp on hem two

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On holydayes by forn hir wold he go

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Wyth his tipet wound aboute his hed

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And Symkyn had hosen of the same

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The durst no wyght clepen hir but dame

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Was noon so hardy that wente bi the weye

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That wyth hir durst rage or ones pleye

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But yif he wolde be slayn of Symkyn

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Wyth panade or knyf or wyth bodkyn

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For Ialous folk ben perilous euer mo

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Algate thei wolde hir wyues wende so

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And ful of hoker and of besmare

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Hir thought that a lady sholde hir spare

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What for hir kynrede and hir norterye

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That she had lerned in the Nonnerye

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¶ A doughter had thei bitwix hem two

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Of twenty yeer wythouten any mo

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Sauyng a child that was of halfe yer age

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In cradel it lay and was a propre page .

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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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