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The Canon's Yeoman's Tale Folio 171v 1 of 21 folios

I couþe neuer leue it in no wise

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Now wolde god my wyt mighte suffise

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To tellen al þat longeþ to þat art

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But napeles ȝet wil I telle ȝou part

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165

Sin þat my lord is goon I wol nought spare

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Such þing al þat I knowe I wol declare

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¶ Narrat

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WIth þis Chanoū I duelled haue seuen ȝer

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And of his science am I neuer þe ner

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Al þat I hadde I haue lost þer by

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And god wot so haþ many mo þan I /

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Ther I was wont to be rigħt freisch and gay

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Of cloþing and of oþer good array

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Now may I were an hose vpon myn heed

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And where my colour was boþe freissch and reed

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Now it is wan and of a leden hewe /

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Who so it vseþ sore schal he rewe

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And of my swynk ȝet blended is myn ye

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Lo such auauntage it is to multiplie

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That slydynge science had me made so bare /

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That I haue no good wher þat euer I fare

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And ȝit I am endetted so þer by

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Of gold I haue borwed trewely

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That whil I lyue I schal it quite neuer

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Lat euery man be war by me for euer

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What maner man þat casteþ him þerto

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If he continue I holde his þrift I do

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For so help me god þer by schal he not wynne

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But empte his purs and make his wittes þynne

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And whan he þurgh his madnes and folye /

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Haþ lost his owne good in ieupardie /

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Than he exciteþ oþer men þerto

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To leese her good as he himself haþ do

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For vnto schrewes ioye it is and ese /

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To haue here felawes in peyne and desese /

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Thus was I oones lerned of a clerk

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Of þat no charge I wol speke of oure werk

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Whan we ben þer as we schul exercise

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Oure eluyssh craft we seme wonder wyse

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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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