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The Manciple's Prologue Folio 202r 1 of 3 folios

Men for tenspire / and eek / for to deffende

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Whom þ^t hym liketh / lo this is the ende

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¶ Thanne conclude I thus / sith þ^t god of heuene

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Ne wil nat that the Philosophres neuene

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How þ^t a man / shal come vn to this stoon

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I rede vs for the beste / lete it goon

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For who so / maketh god his Aduersarie

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As for to werken / any thyng in cont^arie

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Of his wil / certes neuer shal he thryue

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Thogħ that he multiplie terme of lyue

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And there a poynt for ended is my tale

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God sende euery trewe man / boote of his bale Amen ~

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¶ Heere is ended the Chanoūs Yemannes tale ~

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¶ Heere folweth the Prologe / of the Maunciples tale ~

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Woot ye nat where ther stant a litel toun

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Which þ^t ycleped is Bobbeup and doun

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Vnder the Blee / in Caunterbury weye

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Ther gan oure hoost for to Iape and pleye

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And seyde sires / what Dun is in the Myre

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Is ther no man / for preyere ne for hyre

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That wole awake / oure felawe al bihynde

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A theef / myghte hym ful lightly robbe and bynde

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See how he nappeth / see how for Cokkes bones

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That he wol falle / fro his hors atones

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Is that a Cook of Londoū / with meschaunce

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Do hym come forth / he knoweth his penaunce

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For he shal telle a tale / by my fey

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Al thougħ / it be nat worth a Botel hey

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Awake thou Cook quod he / god yeue thee sorwe

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What eyleth thee / to slepe by the morwe ;

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Hastow had fleen al nygħt or artow dronke ;

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Or hastow / with som quene / al nygħt yswonke ;

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So that thow mayst nat holden vp thyn heed

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¶ This Cook / þ^t was ful pale and no thyng reed

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Seyde to oure hoost /. so god my soule blesse

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As ther is falle on me swich heuynesse

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Noot I nat why ; þ^t me were leuere slepe

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Than the beste galon wyn in Chepe

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¶ Wel quod the Maunciple / if it may doon ese

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To thee Sire Cook / and to no wight displese

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Which þ^t heere rideth / in this compaignye

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And that oure hoost / wole of his curteisye

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I wol now / excuse thee / of thy tale

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For in good feith / thy visage is ful pale

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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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