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As of a fox / or of a Cok and Hen

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Taketh the moralite / goode men

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For seint Paul seith / þ^t al that writen is

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To oure doctrine / it is ywrite ywis

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Taketh the fruyt and lat the chaf be stille

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Now goode god / if that it be thy wille

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As seith my lord / so make vs alle goode men

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And brynge vs / to his heighe blisse Amen

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¶ Heere is ended / the Nonnes preestes tale ~

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¶ The prologe of the Seconde Nonnes tale ~ f.165v|

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The Ministre and the Norice / vn to vices

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Which that men clepe in Englissħ ydelnesse

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That Porter of the gate is / of delices

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To eschue / and by hir contrarie / hir oppersse

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That is to seyn / by leueful bisynesse

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Wel oghten we / to doon al oure entente

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Lest that the feend / thurgħ ydelnesse vs shente

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For he / that with hise / thousand cordes slye

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Continuelly / vs waiteth to biclappe

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Whan he may man / in ydelnesse espye

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He kan so lightly / cacche hym in his trappe

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Til þ^t a man / be hent rigħt by the lappe

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He nys nat war / the feend hath hym in honde

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Wel ogħte vs werche / and ydelnesse withstonde

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And thougħ men dradden / neuere for to dye

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Yet seen men wel / by resoū doutelees

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That ydelnesse / is roten slogardye

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Of which ther neuere comth / no good nencrees

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And seen / þ^t slouthe / it holdeth in a lees

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Oonly to slepe / and for to ete and drynke

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And to deuouren / al that othere swynke

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And for to putte vs / fro swich ydelnesse

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That cause is / of so greet confusioū

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I haue heer doon / my feithful bisynesse

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After the legende / in translacioū

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Rigħt of thy glorious lif and passioū

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Thou w^t thy gerland / wrogħt w^t rose & lilie

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Thee meene I / mayde and mooder Cecilie

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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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