The Pardoner's Prologue & Tale
Folio 195v
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A þenne my bulles schewe I alle and some
Oure liege lordes seal is my patent
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Þat schewe I first my body to warant
That no man be so bolde ne prest ne clerk
Me to destourbe of cristes holy werk
And after þat telle I forþ my tales
Bulles of Popes and of of Cardinales
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Of Patriarkes and bisschoppes I schewe
And in latyn I speke wordes \a/ fewe
To saffran wiþ my perdicacioū
And for to stere men to deuocioū
Þanne schewe I forþ my lange cristal stones
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I crammed ful of cloutes and of bones
Relikes þey ben as wenen þey echone
Þan haue I in latoun a schulder bone
Which þat was of an holy iewes scheep
Goode men say I takeþ of my wordes keep
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If þat þis bon be waisshe in any welle
If kow or calf scheep or oxe swelle
That eny worme haþ y bite or stonge
Touche he þis boon anon he schal be sounde
And ȝit also I seye forþermore
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Of pokkes of scabbes and of euery sore
Schal euery scheep be hool þat of þis welle
Drinkeþ a draugħt and take keep what I telle
Wole euery wigħt er þat þe cok him croweþ
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Fastynge drinke of þis welle a draugħt
As þilke holy iewe oure eldre ous taugħt
His bestes and his store schal multiplye
And sires also it heleþ Ielousie
And þey a man be falle in gelouse rage
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Let make wiþ þis water his potage
And neuer schal he more his wijf mystreste
Þey he in soþe a defaute by hire wiste
Al had sche taken prestes tuo or þre