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The Reeve's Prologue Folio 51v 1 of 3 folios

Hit was for nougħt no man his resoun a

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Wiþ oþis greet he was so sworn a doun

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That he was holden wood in al þe toun

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For euery clerk anon right heeld wiþ oþir

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They seyde þe man was wood my leeue broþer

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And euery man gan lawhen at his stryf

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Thus swyued was þe Carpenteres wyf

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For al his kepyng and his gelousye

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And absolon haþ kist hir neþir ye

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And Nicholas is skaldid in his towte

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This tale is doon and god saue al þe route

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HEre endeth þe Millers tale

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¶ And bygȳneþ þe prologe of þe Reeue

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Whan folk hadde lawhen of þis nyce caas

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Of Absolon and heende Nicholas

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Dyuerse folk dyuersely þey seyde

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But for þe moste part þey lowħ and pleyde /

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Ne at þis tale I sawh no man him greue

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But it were oonly Osewald þe Reeue

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By cause he was of Carpentrye craft

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A litel Ire in his herte is laft

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He gan to grucche and blamed it a lite

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So theek qd he ful wel coude I þe quyte

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With bleryng of a prowd mylleres ye

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If þat me luste speke of Ribaudye

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But yk am old me list not pley for age

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Gras tyme is doon my foddir is now forage

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My whyte top writeþ myn olde ȝeeres /

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Myn hert is al so moulyd as myn heeres /

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And ȝit I fare as doth an open ers

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That ilke fruyt is euer lenger þe wers

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Til it be rote in mullok or in stree

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We olde men I drede so fare we /

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Til we be roten can we nat be rype

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We hoppen alway whil þe world wol pype

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For in oure wil þer stikeþ euer a nayl

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To haue an hoor heed and a greene tayl

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As hath a leek for þough oure might be doon

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Oure wil desireþ folye euer in oon

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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 14 October 2024].

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