The Multitext Edition > Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS. 198
The Cook's Prologue
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Thou seist ful soþ qd Roger by my fay
But soþ play quad play as þe flemyng seith
And þerfore herry baillyf by þi feith
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Be þou nouȝt wroth or we departen heere
Though þat my tale be of an Ostelleere
But naþeles I wol not tellen it ȝit
But or we parte I wys þou schalt be quyt
And þer wiþ al he lough and made cheere /
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And saide his tale as ȝe schal after heere