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The Tale of Melibeus Folio 153v 1 of 29 folios

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¶ Therfore Lordynges alle / I yow biseche

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If þ^t yow thynke / I varie as in my speche

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As thus / thougħ that I telle som what moore

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Of prouerbes / than ye han herd bifoore

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Comperhended / in this litel tretys heere

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To enforce with / theffect of my mateere

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And thougħ I / nat the same wordes seye

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As ye han herd / yet to yow alle I preye

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Blameth me nat for as in my sentence

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Shul ye / nowher fynden difference

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Fro the sentence / of this tretys lyte

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After the which / this murye tale I write

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And therfore / herkneth / what þ^t I shal seye

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And lat me tellen / al my tale I preye

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¶ÊExplicit ~

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¶ Heere bigynneth Chaucers tale of Melibee ~

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A yong man called Melibeus myghty and riche / bigat
vp on his wyf that called was Prudence / a doghter
which that called was Sophie /.

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Vp on a day bifel þ^t
he / for his desport is went in to the feeldes hym to pleye /

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his wyf / and eek his doghter hath he left inwith his hous / of which
the dores / weren faste yshette

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¶ thre of hise olde foes / han it espyed
and setten laddres / to the walles of his hous / and by wyndowes .
been entred /

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and betten his wyf / and wounded his doghter with
fyue mortal woundes in fyue sondry places

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¶ this is to seyn / in ~
hir feet. in hir handes /. in hir erys /. in hir nose /. and in hir mouth
and leften hir for deed and wenten awey

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¶ Whan Melibeus / re-
tourned was in to his hous / and saugħ al this meschief ; he lyk a
mad man rentynge his clothes / gan to wepe and crie

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¶ Prudē-
ce his wyf / as ferforth as she dorste / bisoghte hym / of his wepyng
for to stynte /

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but nat for thy / he gan to crie and wepen euere lenger
the moore

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¶ This noble wyf Prudence / remembred hir / vpon the
sentence of Ouide / in his book / that cleped is the remedie of loue . [wedge]

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wher as he seith /

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he is a fool / that destourbeth the mooder to wepen in ~
the deeth of hir child / til she haue wept hir fille / as for a certein ~
tyme

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¶ And thanne / shal man doon his diligence with amyable
wordes / hir to reconforte / and preyen hir of hir wepyng for to ~
stynte

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¶ For which resoū this noble wyf Prudence / suffred hir
housbonde / for to wepe and crie / as for a certein space /.

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And whan
she saugħ hir tyme / she seyde hym / in this wise ¶ Allas my ~
lord quod she / why make ye your self for to be lyk a fool

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for so-
the / it aperteneth nat to a wys man to maken swich a sorwe /

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your

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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 22 January 2025].

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