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The Wife of Bath's Tale Folio 62v 1 of 12 folios

What amble or trotte or pees or go sit doun

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Thow lettest our disport in this manere

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¶ Ye woltow so syr somnour quod the frere

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Now bi my feith I shal or that I go

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Telle of a Somnour such a tale or two

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That al the folk shal laughen in this place

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¶ Now elles frere I wol be shrew thi face

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Quod this somnour and I me beshrew

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But yif I telle tales two or thre a rewe

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Of freres or y come to sydyngborne

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That I shal make thyn hert to morne

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¶ ffor wel I wot thi pacience is goon

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Oure hoost cried and badde pees anon

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And seyde lat the womman telle hir tale

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Ye fare as folk that dronken ben of Ale

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Do dame telle forth your tale and that is best

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¶ Al redy syr quod she ryght as yow lest

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If I haue licence of this worthi frere

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¶ Yis dame quod he telle forth and I wol here .

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¶ Here bigynneth the wifes tale of bathe.

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IN olde dayes of the kyng arthour

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Of which that britons speken gret honour

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Al was land fulfilled of fairye

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The elf queene with hir Ioly compaignye

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Daunced ful oft in many a grene mede

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This was tholde oppinioun as I rede

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I speke of many an hundred yeres ago

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But now can no man se non elues mo

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For now the gret charite and prayers

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Of limitours and other holy freres

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That serchen euery lond and euery streme

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As thikke as motes in the sonne beme

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Blessyng halles chambres kichines boures

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Citees burghs Castelles high tours

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Thropes bernes shipenes dayeryes

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That maketh that ther ben no fayryes

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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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