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The Man of Law's Tale Folio 50r 1 of 27 folios

Me were looth / be likned doutelees

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To Muses / that men clepe Pierides

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Methamorphosios / woot what I mene

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But nathelees / I recche noght a bene

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Though I come after hym / with hawebake

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I speke in prose / and lat hym rymes make

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And with that word / he with a sobre cheere

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Bigan his tale / as ye shal after heere

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¶ The prologe of the mannes tale of Lawe ~

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O hateful harm / condicion of pouerte

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With thurst with coold / with hunger so confoundid

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To asken help / thee shameth in thyn herte

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If thou noon aske / so soore artow ywoundid

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That verray nede / vnwrappeth al thy wounde hid

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Maugree thyn heed / thou most for Indigence

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Or stele / or begge / or borwe thy despence

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Thow blamest crist and seist ful bitterly

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He mysdeparteth / richesse temporal

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Thy neighebore / thou wytest synfully

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And seist thou hast to lite / and he hath al

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Parfay seistow / som tyme he rekene shal

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Whan that his tayl / shal brennen in the gleede

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For he nogħt helpeth / needfulle / in hir neede

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¶ Herke / what is the sentence of the wise

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Bet is to dyen / than haue Indigence

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Thy selue neighebor / wol thee despise

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If thou be poure / farwel thy reuerence

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Yet of the wise man / take this sentence

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Alle dayes of poure men been wikke

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Be war therfore / er thou come to that prikke

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If thou be poure / thy brother hateth thee

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And alle thy freendes / fleen from thee allas

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O riche marchauntz / ful of wele been yee

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O noble / o prudent folk / as in this cas

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Youre bagges / been nat fild with ambes as

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But with sys cynk / that renneth for youre chaunce

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At Cristemasse / myrie may ye daunce

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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 19 January 2025].

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