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The Summoner's Tale Folio 74r 1 of 16 folios

Where is the neest of freres in this place

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And or half a forlong wey of space

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Ryght so as bees out swarmen of an hyue

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Out of the deueles ers ther gonne thei dryue

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Twenty thousant freres on a route

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And thurgh oute helle swarmedon aboute

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And come agayn as fast as thei may gon

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And in his ers thei crepten euerychone

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He clapte his taille agayn and lay ful stylle

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This frere whan he loked had his fille

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Vpon the tormentis of this sory place

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His spirit god restored of his grace

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Vnto his body agayn and he awook

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But nathales for fere yit he quook

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So was the deueles ers ay in his mynde

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That is his heritage of verrey kynde

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God saue yow al saue this cursed frere

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My prologe wil I ende in this manere

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Here endyth the prologe

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Here bygynneth the Sompnours tale.

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LOrdynges ther is in yorke shire as I gesse

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A Mersshi Contre called holdernesse

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In which ther went a limitour about

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To preche and eke to begge it is no dout

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And so bifel that on a day this frere

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Had preched at a chirche in his manere

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And specially abouen euery thing

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Excited the peple in his preching

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To trentalles and to yeue for goddes sake

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Wher wyth men myghten holy houses make

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Ther as dyuyne seruyse is honoured

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Nat ther as it is wasted and deuoured

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Ne there it nedyth nat to be yeue

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As to possessioners that mowen leue

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Thanked be god in wele and habundance

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Trentalles seyde he delyuered from penance

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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 22 January 2025].

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