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The Knight's Tale Folio 10r 1 of 48 folios

¶ Heere bigynneth the knygħtes tale ~

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WHilom / as olde stories / tellen vs

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Ther was a duc þ^t highte Theseus

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Of Atthenes / he was lord and gouernour

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And in his tyme swich a Conquerour

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That gretter / was ther noon vnder the Sonne

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Ful many a riche contree hadde he wonne

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What with his wysdom / and his chiualrie

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He conquered / al the regne of Femenye

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That whilom / was ycleped Scithia

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And wedded the queene ypolita

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And broghte hir hoom w^t hym in his contree

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With muchel glorie / and greet solempnytee

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And eek hir faire suster Emelye

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And thus / with victorie and with melodye

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Lete I this noble duc / to Atthenes ryde

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And al his hoost in Armes hym bisyde

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¶ And certes / if it nere / to long to heere

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I wolde yow haue toold / fully the manere

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How / wonnen was the regne of Femenye

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By Theseus / and by his chiualrye

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And of the grete bataille for the nones

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Bitwixen Atthenes and Amazones

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And how asseged was ypolita

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The faire hardy queene of Scithia

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And of the feste / þ^t was at hir weddynge

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And of the tempest / at hir hoom comynge

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But al that thyng I moot as now forbere

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I haue god woot a large feeld to ere

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And wayke been / the Oxen in my Plougħ

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The remenant of the tale / is long ynougħ

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I wol nat letten eek noon of this route

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Lat euery felawe / telle his tale aboute

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And lat se now / who shal the soper wynne

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And ther I lefte / I wol ayeyn bigynne

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This duc of whom I make mencioun

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Whan he was come / almoost vn to the toun

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In al his wele / and in his mooste pride

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He was war as he caste his eye aside

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Where that ther kneled in the weye

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A compaignye of ladyes / tweye and tweye

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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 10 September 2024].

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