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The Prologue to the Tale of Sir Thopas Folio 151r 1 of 2 folios

Wherfore I synge / and synge I moot certeyn

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In honour / of that blisful mayden free

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Til fro my tonge / of taken is the greyn

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And afterward / thus seyde she to me

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My litel child / now wol I fecche thee

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Whan þ^t the greyn / is fro thy tonge ytake

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Be nat agast I wol thee nat forsake

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¶ This hooly Monk this Abbot hym meene I

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His tonge out caughte / and took a wey the greyn

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And he yaf vp the goost ful softely

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And whan this Abbot hadde this wonder seyn

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Hise salte teeris / trikled doun as reyn

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And gruf he fil / al plat vp on the grounde

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And stille he lay / as he had leyn ybounde

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The Couent eek / lay on the pauement

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Wepynge / and heryen cristes mooder deere

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And after that they ryse and forth been went

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And in a temple / of Marbulstones cleere

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Enclosen they / his litel body sweete

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Ther he is now / god lene vs alle for to meete

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¶ O yonge Hugħ of Lyncoln slayn also

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With cursed Iewes / as it is notable

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For it is / but a litel while ago

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Preye eek / for vs / we synful folk vnstable

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That of his mercy / god so merciable

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On vs / his grete mercy multiplie

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For reuerence / of his mooder Marie Amen ~

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¶ Heere is ended / the Prioresses tale ~

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¶ Bihoold the murye wordes of the Hoost to Chaucer ~

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Whan seyd was al this miracle / euery man

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As sobre was / that wonder was to se

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Til that oure hoost Iapen to bigan

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And thanne at erst he looked vp on me .s. Chaucer

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And seyde thus / what man artow quod he ;

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Thou lookest as thou woldest fynde an hare

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For euere / vp on the ground / I se thee stare

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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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