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The Tale of Melibeus Folio 154r 2 of 29 folios

dogħter / witħ the g^ace of god shal warissħe and escape /

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and al were it
so / that she rigħt now were deed ; ye ne ougħte nat as for hir deeth
your self to destroye

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¶ Senek seith / the wise man shal nat take to
greet disconfort for the deeth of his children /

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but certes / he sholde suf-
fren it in pacience / as wel / as he / abideth the deeth / of his owene
propre persone

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¶ This Melibeus / answerde anon and seyde ¶ What man
quod he / sholde of his wepyng stente / that hath so greet a cause for to
wepe ;

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Ihū cⁱst oure lord hym self wepte for the deeth of Lazarus hys
freend

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¶ Prudence answerde [wedge]

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. Certes wel I woot [wedge]

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Attempree we-
pyng is no thyng deffended to hym þ^t sorweful is amonges folk in
sorwe / but it is rather graunted hym to wepe

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¶ The Apostle Paul
vn to the Romayns writeth [wedge]

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Man shal reioyse with hem that makē
ioye and wepen / with swich folk as wepen

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¶ But thougħ attempree ~
wepyng be ygraunted / ; outrageous wepyng certes is deffended /

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Mesure
of wepyng sholde be considered / after the loore þ^t techeth vs Senek ~

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¶ Whan that thy frend is deed quod he / lat nat thyne eyen to moyste been
of teeris / ne to muche drye / Al thougħ the teeris come to thyne eyen / lat
hem nat falle /

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And whan thou hast for goon thy freend / do diligence
to gete another freend / and this is moore wysdom / than for to wepe
for thy freend which that thou hast lorn / for ther Inne is no boote / ~

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And therfore / if ye gouerne yow by Sapience / put awey sorwe / out of
your herte

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¶ Remembre yow / þ^t Iħc Syrak / seith ¶ A man that is
ioyous and glad in herte / it hym conserueth florissynge in his age
But soothly / sorweful herte / maketh hise bones drye

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¶ He seith eek
thus / That sorwe in herte / sleeth ful many a man

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¶ Salomon seith /
That right as Motthes in the shepes flees / anoyeth to the clothes ; &
the smale wormes to the tree ; rigħt so anoyeth sorwe to the herte /

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wher-
fore / vs oghte as wel in the deeth of oure children / as in the losse of oþere
goodes temporels haue pacience

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¶ Remembre yow / vpon the pacient
Iob / whan he hadde lost his children and his temporeel substance / and
in his body endured and receyued ful many a greuous tribulaciou ; yet
seyde he thus

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¶ Oure lord / hath biraft it me / rigħt as oure lord hath wold
rigħt so it is doon blessed be the name of oure lord

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¶ To thise forseide
thynges / answerde Melibeus / vn to his wyf Prudence ¶ Alle thy wor-
des quod he been sothe / and therwith profitable / but trewely / myn herte
is troubled with this sorwe so greuously / that I noot what to doone ~

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¶ Lat calle quod Prudence thy trewe freendes alle and thy lynage / whi-
che that been wise / telleth your cas and herkneth what they seye in
conseillyng and yow gouerne after hir sentence

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¶ Salomon seith / werk
alle thy thynges by conseil / and thou shalt neuer repente

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¶ Thanne by
the conseil of his wyf Prudence / this Melibeus / leet callen a greet con-
gregaciou of folk /.

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as surgiens / Phisiciens olde folk and yonge / and sō-
me of hise olde enemys reconsiled as by hir semblaūt to his loue / and
in to his g^ace /

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And ther with al / ther coomen sōme of hise neighebores ~
that diden hym reuerence / moore for drede than for loue / as it happeth ofte

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¶ Ther coomen also / ful manye subtille flatereres and wise Aduocatz ler-
ned in the lawe /

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And whan this folk / togidre assembled weren / this Me-
libeus in sorweful wise / shewed hem his cas /

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and by the manere of his

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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 23 March 2023].

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