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The Nun's Priest's Tale Folio 179r 1 of 14 folios

¶ Heere bigynneth / the Nonnes Preestes tale of the Cok and Hen Chauntecleer and Pertelote ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

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A poure wydwe / somdeel stape in Age

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Was whilom dwellyng. in a narwe cotage

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Biside a greue / stondynge in a dale

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This wydwe / of whicħ I telle yow my tale

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Syn thilke day / that she was laft a wyf /

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In pacience / ladde a ful symple lyf

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For litel / was hir catel and hir rente

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By housbondrie / of swich as god hir sente

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She foond hir self / and eek hir doghtren two

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Thre large sowes / hadde she and namo

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Thre keen / and eek a sheepe / þ^t highte Malle

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Ful sooty / was hir bour and eek hir halle

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In which she eet ful many a sklendre Meel

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Of poynaunt Sauce / hir neded neuer a deel

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No deyntee morsel / passed thurgħ hir throte

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Hir diete / was accordant to hir Cote

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Repleccioū / ne made hir neuere sik /

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Attempree diete / was al hir Phisik

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And excercise / and hertes suffisaunce

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The goute / lette hir no thyng for to daunce

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Napoplexie / shente nat hir heed

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No wyn ne drank / she / neither whit ne reed

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Hir bord was serued moost w^t whit and blak /

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Milk and broun breed / in which she foond no lak

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Seynd Bacoū / and somtyme an Ey or tweye

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For she was / as it were / a maner deye

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¶ A yeerd she hadde / enclosed al aboute

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With stikkes / and a drye dych w^t oute

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In which / she hadde a Cok / heet Chauntecleer

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In al the land / of crowyng nas his peer

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His voys was murier than the murie Orgon

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On Messedayes / that in the chirche gon

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Wel sikerer was his crowyng in his logge

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Than is a Clokke / or an Abbey Orlogge

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By nature / he crew ech Ascencioū

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Of the equynoxial in thilke toun

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For whan degrees fiftene weren ascended

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Thanne crew he / that it myghte nat been amended

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His Coomb was redder / than the fyn coral

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And batailled / as it were a Castel wal

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His byle was blak and as the Ieet it shoon

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Lyk asure / were hise legges and his toon

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Hise nayles / whitter than the Lylye flour

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And lyk the burned gold / was his colour

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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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