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The Tale of Melibeus Folio 217v 1 of 35 folios

And þougħ I nadde þe same wordes saye

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As ȝe han herd ȝit to alle ȝou I praye

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Blameþ me nougħt for as in my sentence

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Ȝe schal nougħt fynde mochil difference /

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Fro þe sentence of þe tretys lynyte

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After þe which þis mery tale I wryte

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And herkene what I schal seye

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And let me telle my tale I ȝou preye

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Here bygynneþ Chauceres tale of Melibe and
his wyf Prudence and his dought er Sapience

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A ȝong man whilom called Melibe mighty & riche
bigate vpon his wyf ~~a doughter~~ þat called was
Prudence . a doughter which þat cleped was Sa-
pience

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¶ Vpon a day feƚƚ þat he for his disporte is
went in to þe feeldes him to pleye

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his wyf and
eek his doughter haþ he lefte wiþinne his hous
of which þe dores weren faste schette .

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Foure of his olde foos han it
aspyed . and setten ladderes to þe walles of his hous and by þe wyn-
dowes ben y entred

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¶ And beeten his wyf and wounded his doughter
with fyue mortaille woundes in .v. sondry places .

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þis is to say in
hire feet in hire hand . in hire eeres in hire nose in hire mouþ ¶ And
laften hire for deed and wenten here wey

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¶ When Melibeë retourned
was aȝein in til his hous and sawe al þis meschief ¶ He ylike a mad
man rendyng his cloþes gan to weepe and crye

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¶ Prudence his wyf as
ferforþ as sche dorste bysougħt him of his weepyng for to stynte

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but
nouȝt for þy he gan to wepe and crye euer lenger þe more

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¶ This no-
ble wyf prudence remembred hire on þe sentence of Ovide in his bok
þat cleped is þe remedy of loue where he saiþ

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he is a fool þat distour-
beþ þe mooder for to wepe in þe deþ of hire childe til sche haue wepte
hire fille as for a certein tyme

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Then schal man don his diligence w^t
amyable wordes hire to comforte and to perye hir of hire wepyng for
to stynte

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¶ For whicħ resoun þis noble prudence suffred hire housbond
for to weepe and crye as for a certeyn space

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¶ And when sche saugħ
hire tyme sche seyde him in þis wyse ¶ Allas my lord quod sche why
make ȝe ȝoure self for to be ylike a fool

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For soþe it apartyneþ nouȝt
to a wise man to maken such a sorwe

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¶ Ȝoure doughter wiþ þe grace
of god schal be warisshed and askaþe

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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 December 2024].

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