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The Tale of Sir Thopas Folio 151v 1 of 4 folios

¶ Approche neer / and looke vp murily

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Now war yow sires / and lat this man haue place

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He in the waast is shape / as wel as .I. .i. henry Bailly

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This were a popet in an Arm tenbrace

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For any wōman smal / and fair of face

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He semeth eluyssħ / by his contenaūce

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For vn to no wigħt / dooth he daliaūce

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¶ Sey now som what syn oother folk han sayd

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Telle vs a tale / of myrthe / and that anon

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Hoost quod I / ne beth nat yuele apayd

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For oother tale / certes kan I noon

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But of a rym / I lerned longe agoon

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Ye that is good quod he .i. hoost / now shul ye heere

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Som deyntee thyng me thynketh by his cheere

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¶ Heere bigynnetħ Chaucers tale of Thopas ~

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Listeth lordes in good entent

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And I wol telle verrayment

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Of myrthe and of solas

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Al of a knygħt / was fair and gent

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In bataille / and in tourneyment

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His name / was sir Thopas

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¶ Yborn he was / in fer contree

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In flaundres / al biyonde the see

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At Poperyng in the place

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His fader was / a man ful free

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And lord he was / of that contree

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As it was goddes grace

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¶ Sir Thopas / wax a dogħty swayn

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Whit was his face as Payndemayn

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Hise lippes rede as rose

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His rode is lyk / scarlet in grayn

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And I yow telle / in good certayn

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He hadde a semely nose

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¶ His heer / his berd / was lyk saffroun

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That to his girdel raugħte adoun

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Hise shoos of Cordewane

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Of Brugges / were his hosen broun

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His Robe / was of Syklatoun

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That coste many a Iane

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¶ He koude hunte / at wilde deer

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And ride an haukyng for Riuer

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W grey goshauk on honde

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Ther to he was / a good archeer

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Of wrastlyng was ther noon his peer

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Ther any Ram shal stonde

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¶ Ful many a mayde / brigħt in bour

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They moorne for hym paramour

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Whan hem were bet to slepe

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But he was chaast and no lechour

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And sweete / as is the Brembul flour

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That bereth the rede hepe

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¶ And so bifel vp on a day

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For sothe / as I yow telle may

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Sir Thopas / wolde out ride

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He worth / vpon his steede gray

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And in his hand a launcegay

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A long swerd / by his side

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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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