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The Squire's Tale Folio 115v 1 of 14 folios

¶ The Prologe of the Squieres tale

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EY goddes mercy / seyde oure Hoost tho

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Now swich a wyf / I pray god kepe me fro

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Lo whiche sleightes / and subtiltees

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In wōmen been / for ay as bisy as bees

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Been they / vs sely men for to deceyue

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And from a sooth / euere wol they weyue

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By this Marchaūtes tale / it preueth weel

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But doutelees / as trewe as any steel

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I haue a wyf / thougħ þ^t she poure be

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But of hir tonge / a labbyng shrewe is she

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And yet she hath / an heepe of vices mo

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Ther of nofors / lat alle swiche thynges go

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But wyte ye what in conseil be it seyd

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Me reweth soore / I am vnto hir teyd

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For and I sholde / rekenen euery vice

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Which þ^t she hath / ywis I were to nyce

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And cause why / it sholde reported be

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And toold to hir / of sōme of this meynee

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Of whom / it nedeth nat for to declare

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Syn wōmen / konnen outen swich chaffare

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And eek my wit suffiseth nat therto

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To tellen al / wherfore my tale is do

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¶ Squier com neer / if it your wille be

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And sey somwhat of loue / for certes ye ;

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Konnen ther on / as muche as any man

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¶ Nay sir quod he / but I wol seye as I kan

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With hertly wyl / for I wol nat rebelle

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Agayn your lust ; a tale wol I telle

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Haue me excused / if I speke amys

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My wyl is good / and lo my tale is this

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¶ Heere bigynneth / the Squieres tale ~

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AT Sarray / in the land of Tartarye

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Ther dwelte a kyng that werreyed Russye

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Thurgħ which ther dyde / many a doughty man

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This noble kyng was cleped Cambyuskare

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Which in his tyme / was of so greet renoū

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That ther was / no wher in no Regioū

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So excellent a lord / in alle thyng

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Hym lakked nogħt that longeth to a kyng

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And of the secte / of which þ^t he was born

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He kepte his lay / to which þ^t he was sworn

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And ther to / he was hardy / wys and riche

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And pitous and Iust alwey yliche

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Sooth of his word / benigne and hon^rable

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Of his corage / as any Centre stable

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Yong fressħ / strong and in Armes desirous

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As any Bacheler / of al his hous

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A fair persone he was / and fortunat

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And kepte alwey / so wel roial estat

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That ther was nowher / swich another man

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¶ This noble kyng this Tartre Cambyuskan

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Hadde two sones / on Elpheta his wyf

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Of whiche / the eldeste higħte Algarsyf

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That oother sone / was cleped Cambalo

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A doghter hadde / this worthy kyng also

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That yongest was / and higħte Canacee

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But for to telle yow / al hir beautee

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It lyth nat in my tonge / nyn my konnyng

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I dar nat vndertake / so heigħ a thyng

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Myn englissħ eek is insufficient

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I moste been / a Rethor excellent

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That koude hise colours / longynge for that Art

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If he / sholde hir discryuen euery part

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I am noon swich / I moot speke as I kan

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¶ And so bifel / that whan this Cambyuskan

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Hath twenty wynter / born his diademe

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As he was wont fro yeer to yeer I deme

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He leet the feeste / of his Natiuitee

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Doon cryen / thurgħ Sarray his Citee

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The laste Idus of Marcħ / after the yeer

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Phebus the Sonne / ful ioly was and cleer

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For he was / neigħ his exaltacioū

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In Martes face ./ and in his mansioū .

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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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