The Summoner's Tale Folio 86r 1 of 13 folios
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Vn to his body a ȝein / and he a woke
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But natheles / for feer / ȝet he quoke
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So was the deueles ars / ay in his mynde
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That is hise Eritage / of verrey kynde
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God saue ȝow alle / saue this cursed Frere
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My prolog
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Et incipit fabula
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Lordynggis there is / in ȝorkshire as I gesse
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A mersshy contre / called holdernesse
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In whicħ there wente / a lymytour a boute
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To per che and eke to begge / it is no doute
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And so byfel / that on a day this frere
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Had preched at a chirche / in his manere
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And specially / a bouen euer y thynge
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Excited he the peeple / in his prechynge
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To trentales / and to ȝeuen for goddis sake
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Where witħ men mygħ t / holy houses make
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There as diuine seruyse / is honoured
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Nat there as it is wasted / and deuoured
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Ne there it nedetħ nat / for to be ȝeue
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As to possessioneres / that moun lyue
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Thanked be god / in wele and habundaunce
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Trentals qd he / delyueren fro penaunce
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Here frendes soules / as wel old as ȝonge
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Ȝa / whan that they ben / hastily I songe
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Nat for toholden a prest / Ioly and gay
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He syngetħ nat / but oo masse on a day
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Delyueretħ out a non qd he / the soules
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Ful hard it is / wt flesshoke / or with owles
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To ben I clawed / or to brenne or bake
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Now spede ȝow hastily / for cristes sake
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And whan this frere / had seid al his entente
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Witħ Qui cum patre / fortħ his weye he wente
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He went his wey / no lengere wold he rest
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Witħ skrippe and tipped staf / I tukked heye
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In euer y hous / he gan to poore and prye
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And begged mele and chese / or ellis corñ
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His felawe had a staf / typped witħ horñ
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And a poyntel / polysshed fetisly
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And wrot the names alwey / as he stode
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Of alle folk / that ȝaf hem any good
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A scaunce that he / wold / for hem preye
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Ȝeue vs a busshel whete / malt or reye
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