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The Summoner's Tale Folio 81r 1 of 13 folios

Of oother folk / he saugh ynowe in wo

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Vn to this Angel / spak the frere tho

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¶ Now sir quod he / han freres swich a grace

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That noon of hem / shal come to this place ;

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¶ Yis quod this Angel / many a Millioun

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And vn to Sathanas / he ladde hym doun

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And now hath Sathanas / seith he a tayl

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Brodder than of a Carryk is the sayl

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Hoold vp thy tayl / thou Sathnas quod he

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Shewe forth thyn ers / and lat the frere se

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Wher is the nest of freres / in this place

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And er þ^t / half a furlong wey of space

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Rigħt so as bees / out swarmen from an hyue

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Out of the deueles ers / ther gonne dryue

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Twenty thousand freres / in a route

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And thurgħ out helle / swarmeden aboute

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And comen agayn / as faste as they may gon

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And in his ers / they crepten euerychon

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He clapte his tayl agayn / and lay ful stille

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This frere / whan he hadde looke al his fille

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Vpon the tormentz / of this sory place

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His spirit god restored of his grace

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Vn to his body agayn / and he awook

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But natheles / for fere yet he quook

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So was the deueles ers / ay in his mynde

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That is his heritage / of verray kynde

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God saue yow alle / saue this cursed frere

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My prologe / wol I ende in this manere

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¶ Heere bigynneth the Somono^r his tale ~

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LOrdynges / ther is in yorkshire / as I gesse

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A Merssħcontree / called Holdernesse

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In which / ther wente a Lymytour aboute

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To perche / and eek to begge / it is no doute

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And so bifel / that on a day / this frere

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Hadde preched at a chirche in his manere

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And specially / abouen euery thyng

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Excited he the peple / in his prechyng

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To trentals / and to yeue for goddes sake

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Wher with / men mygħte hooly houses make

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Ther as diuine seruyce is honoured

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Nat ther as it is wasted and deuoured

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Ne ther it nedeth nat for to be yeue

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As to possessioners / that mowen lyue

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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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