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The Monk's Prologue Folio 168r 1 of 3 folios

¶ The murye wordes of the Hoost / to the Monk ~

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WHan ended / was my tale / of Melibee

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And of Prudence / and hir benignytee

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Oure hoost seyde / as I am feithful man

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And by that percious corpus Madrian

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I hadde leuere / than a barel ale

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That good lief my wyf / hadde herd this tale

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She nys no thyng / of swich pacience

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As was this Melibeus wyf Prudence

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By goddes bones / whan I bete my knaues

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She bryngeth me forth / the grete clobbed staues

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And crieth / slee the dogges euerichoon

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And brek / hem / bothe bak and euery boon

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¶ And if that any neighebore of myne

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Wol nat in chirche / to my wyf enclyne

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Or be so hardy / to hir to trespace

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Whan she comth / she rampeth in my face

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And crieth / false coward / wrek thy wyf /

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By corpus bones / I wol haue thy knyf

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And thou shalt haue my distaf and go spynne

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Fro day to nygħt / rigħt thus she wol bigynne

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Allas she seith / that euere þ^t I was shape

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To wedden a Milksope / or a coward Ape

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That wol been ouerlad with euery wigħt

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Thou darst nat stonden by thy wyues rigħt

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¶ This is my lif but if that I wol figħte

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And out at dore / anon I moot me digħte

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Or elles I am but lost but if that I

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Be lik a wilde Leoū fool hardy

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I woot wel / she wol do me slee som day

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Som neighebore / and thanne go my way

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For I am perilous / with knyf in honde

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Al be it that I dar hir nat withstonde

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For she is / byg in Armes by my feitħ

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That shal he fynde / þ^t hir mysdooth or seith

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But lat vs passe awey / fro this mateere

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¶ My lord the Monk quod he / be myrie of cheere

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For ye shul telle a tale trewely

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Loo Rouchestre / stant heer faste by

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Ryde forth myn owene lord / brek nat oure game

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But by my trouthe / I knowe nat youre name

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Wher shal I calle yow / my lord daun Ioħn

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Or daun Thomas / or elles daun Alboñ

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Of what hous be ye / by youre fader kyn

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I vowe to god / thou hast a ful fair skyn

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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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