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The Canon's Yeoman's Tale Folio 204r 1 of 4 folios

Demetħ al thyng be spoke of hī I wys

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That was the cause / he gan so ney he drawe

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To his ȝeman / to herken al his sawe

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And thus he seide / vn to his ȝeman thoo

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Holde þ^u thy pees / & speke no wordes moo

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For if þ^u do / thow shalt it dere a bye

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Thow sclaundrest me heere / in this companye

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And eke discouerest / þ^t þ^u shuldest hide

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Ȝa quod oure hoost / telle on what so betide

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145

Of al his thretenynge / rekke nat a myte

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In feitħ quod he / nomore I do but lyte

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And whan this Chanoū saw / it wolde nat be

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But his ȝeman / wolde telle his pryuete

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He fledde a wey / for verrey sorwe & shame

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150

A quod the ȝeman / heere shal rise a game

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Al that I can / a noon I wol ȝow telle

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Syn he is gon / the foule fend hī quelle

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For neuere heere after / wyl I w^t hī mete

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For peny ne for pound / I ȝow byhete

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155

He þ^t me brougħt first / vn to that game

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Er that he dye / sorwe haue he & shame

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For it is ernest to me / be my feitħ

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And ȝet for al my smert / & al my grief

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160

For al my sorwe / labour & meschief

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I coude neuere leue it / in no wyse

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Now wolde god my wyt / mygħt suffise

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To tellen al / þ^t longetħ to that art

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And nathelees / ȝow wil I tellen part

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165

Syn þ^t my lord is gon / I wyl nat spare

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Swicħ thyng as that I knowe / I wil declare

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Heere endetħ the prologe of the Chanoūs ȝeman /

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and bygynnetħ his tale of Multiplicacion ;

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Witħ this Chanoū / I dwelt haue seuene ȝere

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And of his science / am I neuere the nere

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Al that I had / I haue lost ther by

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And god wot / so han many moo than I

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There I was wont / to be rigħt fressħ and gay

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Of clothynge / and of othere good array

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Now may I were / an hose / vp on myn hed

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And where my colour was / bothe fressħ & red

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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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