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The Nun's Priest's Prologue Folio 178r 1 of 2 folios

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Thy false wheel / my wo al may I wyte

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Hise children wende / that it for hunger was

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And seyde fader do nat so allas

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Oure flessħ thou yaf /. take oure flessħ vs fro

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And ete ynougħ / rigħt thus they to hym seyde

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And after that with Inne a day or two

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They leyde hem / in his lappe adoun and deyde

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Hym self despeired / eek for hunger starf

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Thus ended is / this myghty Erl of Pize

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From heigħ estaat Fortune awey hym carf

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Of this Tragedie / it ogħte ynougħ suffise

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Who so wol here it in a lenger wise

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Redeth / the grete Poete of Ytaille

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That higħte Dant. for he kan al deuyse

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Fro point to point. nat o word wol he faille

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¶ Explicit Traged ~

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¶ Heere stynteth the Knygħt the Monk of his tale ~

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¶ Heere stynteth the Knyght the Monk of his tale ~ ¶ The Prologe of the Nonnes preestes tale ~

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Hoo quod the knygħt good sire namoore this

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That ye han seyd / is rigħt ynougħ ywis

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And muchel moore / for litel heuynesse

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Is rigħt ynougħ / to muche folk I gesse

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I seye for me / it is a greet disese

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Where as men han been / in greet welthe and ese

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To heeren / of hir sodeyn fal allas

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And the contrarie / is ioye and greet solas

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As whan a man / hath been in poure estaat

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And there abideth / in prosperitee

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Swich thyng is gladsom / as it thynketh me

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And of swich thyng. were goodly for to telle

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Ye quod oure hoost by seint Poules belle

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Ye seye rigħt sooth / this Monk / he clappeth lowde

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He spak / . how Fortune / couered with a clowde

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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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