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The Parson's Tale Folio 206v 1 of 53 folios

To shewe yow the wey / in this viage

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Of thilke parfit / glorious pilgrymage

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That higħte / Ierusalem celestial

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And if ye vouche sauf / anon I shal

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Bigynne vp on my tale / for which I preye

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Telle youre auys / I kan no bettre seye

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¶ But nathelees / this meditacioū

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I putte it ay / vnder correccioū

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Of Clerkes / for I am nat textueel

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I take but sentence / trusteth weel

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Therfore / I make a protestacioū

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That I wol stonde to correccioū

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¶ Vp on this word / we han assented soone

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For as vs semed / it was for to doone

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To enden / in som vertuous sentence

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And for to yeue hym space and audience

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And bede oure hoost he sholde to hym seye

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That alle we / to telle his tale hym preye

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¶ Oure hoost hadde the wordes for vs alle

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Sire preest quod he / now faire yow bifalle

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Sey what yow list and we wol gladly heere

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And with that word / he seyde in this manere

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Telleth quod he / youre meditacioū

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But hasteth yow / the Sonne wole adoun

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Beth fructuous / and that in litel space

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And to do wel / god sende yow his grace

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¶ Explicit prohemium ~

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¶ Heere bigynnetħ / the Parsoūs tale ~

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¶ Ier .6^o. State super vias & videte & interrogate de viis anti-
quis / que sit via bona / & ambulate in ea & inuenietis re-
frigerium animabus vestris et cetera ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

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Oure sweete lord god of heuene that no man wole ~
perisse / but wole that we comen alle to the knoweleche
of hym / and the blisful lif that is pardurable /.

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teth vs by the prophete Ieremie / and seith / in thys wyse /

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¶ Stondeth vp on the weyes / and seeth / and axeth ~
of olde pathes / that is to seyn / of olde sentences / which is the goo-
de wey /

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and walketh in that wey / and ye shal fynde refresshynge
for youre soules et cetera /

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¶ Manye been the weyes espirituels / that le-
den folk / to oure lord Ihū Crist. and to the regne of glorie /

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Of whiche
weyes / ther is a ful noble wey / and a couenable / which may nat fayle

to no man / ne to womman / that thurgħ synne hath mysgoon fro the rigħte
wey of Ierusalem celestial /

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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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