The Multitext Edition > London, British Library MS. Harley 7334
The Nun's Priest's Prologue
Folio 238r
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Sir say som what of huntyng I ȝow pray
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Nay quod þe monk I haue no lust to play //
Now let another telle as I haue told
Than spak our ost wiþ rude speche and bold //
And said vnto the nonnes prest anoon
Com ner þou prest . com ner þou ser Ioħn
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Tel vs such þing as may our hertes glade
Be bliþe al þough þou ryde vpon a iade /
What þougħ þin hors be boþe foul and lene /
If he wil serue þe rek not a bene
Lok þat þin hert be mery euer mo
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Ȝis sire ȝis hoste . also mot I go
But I be mery I wis I wol be blamed
And rigħt anoon he hath his tale tamyd
And þus he sayd vnto vs euerich oon //
This sweete prest this goodly man sir Ioħn