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The Miller's Tale Folio 42v 1 of 19 folios

Ȝit nolde I for the oxen in my plougħ

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Take vpon me more þan ynougħ

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Thougħ þat þou deme þiself pat þou be oon

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I wol bileeue wel pat I am \n/oon

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An housbond schal not ben inquisityf

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Of goddes pryuete ne of his wyf

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So þat he fynde goddes foysoun þere

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Of þe remenaūt needeþ nougħt enquere /

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What schuld I seye but þat þis proud Millere

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He nolde his wordes for no man forbere

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But tolde his cherlisch tale in his manere

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Me aþinkeþ þat I schal reherce it heere

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And þerfor euery gentil wight I preye .

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For goddes loue as deme nat pat I seye

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Of yuel entent but for I moot reherse

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Here wordes aƚƚ ¶ al be þey better or werse

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Or elles falsen som of my mateere

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And þerfor who so list it nat to heere

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Turne ouer þe leef and cheese anoþer tale

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For he schal fynde ynowe boþe gret and smale

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Of storial þing þat toucheþ gentilesse

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And eek more ryalte and holynesse /

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Blameþ nat me If pat ȝe cheese amys

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The Miller is a cherl ȝe know wel þis /

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So was þe reeue and oþir many mo

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And harlotry þey tolden boþe two

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Auyseþ ȝou and put me out / of blame

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And men schulde nat make ernest of game

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HEre endeþ þe prologe of þe Miller

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¶And bygȳneth his tale

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Whilom þer was dwellyng at Oxenford

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A riche gnof þat gestes heeld to boorde

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And of his craft he was a Carpenter

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Wiþ him þer was dwellyng a pore scoler

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Had lerned art but al his fantasye

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Was torned for to lerne astologye

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And cowde a certeyn of conclusioūs

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To deme by interrogacioūs

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If þat men axed him in certeyn houres /

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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 14 October 2024].

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