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The Miller's Prologue Folio 44r 3 of 3 folios

¶ The Millewardes tale /

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Whan þat þe knight had þus his tale y told

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In aƚƚ þe companye nas þer ȝong ne old

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That he ne seyde it was a noble storye

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And worþi for to drawen in memorie

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And nameliche þe gentils euerychoon

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Oure Oost lough and swor so mot I gon

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This goþ aright vnbokeled is þe male /

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Lat se now who schal telle anoþer tale /

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For trewely þe game is wel bygonne

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Now telleþ ȝe sire monk if ȝe kunne

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Somwhat to quyte with þe knightes tale

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The meller þat for drunken was al pale

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So þat vnneþe vpon his hors he sat

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He nolde aualen neyþer hood ne hat

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Ne abide noman for his curtesie /

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But in Pilates vois he gan to crye

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And swor by armes and by blood and bones

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I can a noble tale for þe nones

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Wiþ which I wol now quite þe knightes tale

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Oure oost saugh pat he was drunken of ale

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And seyde abyde Robyn leeue broþer

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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 14 October 2024].

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