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The Man of Law's Tale Folio 72r 1 of 29 folios

But certeynly no worde writeþ he

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Of þilke wikked ensample of Canace

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That loued hir owen broþer synfully

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On whiche corsed stories I seye fy

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Or elles of Tyro appoloneus

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How þat þe cursed kyng Anteochus

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Byreft his doughter of hir maydenhede

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That is so horrible a tale as man may reede

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Whan he hir þrew vpon þe pament

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And þerfore he of ful auysement

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Wolde neuer wryte in non of his sermoūs

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Of such vnkynde abhominacioūs

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Ne I wol non reherse if þat I may

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But of my tale how schal I do þis day

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Me were loth to be lykned douteles /

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To muses þat men clepen Pyerides

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Methamorphoseos wot what I mene

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But naþeles I recche nat a bene

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They I come after him with hawe bake /

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I speke in prose and let him rymes make

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And wiþ þat word he wiþ a . sobre cheere

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Bygan his tale as ȝe schal aft er heere

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¶ Explic prologë incipit fabula

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O hateful harm condicioū of pouert

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Wiþ þurst wiþ cold wiþ honger so confoundyd

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To asken help it schameþ in þin hert

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If þou non aske wiþ neede so art þou woundyd

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That verray neede vnwrappeþ al þy woūdes hyd

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Maugre þyn heed þou most for Indigence

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Or stele or begge or borwe þy dispence

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Thow blamest crist and seyst ful bitterly

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He mys departeþ riches temporal

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And þyn neyhebour þou wytes synfully

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And seyst þou hast to litel and he haþ al

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Parfay seystow som tyme he rekne schal

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Whan þat his tayl schal brennen in þe gleede

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For he nougħt helpeth þe needful in his neede

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HErkneþ what is þe sentens of þe wyse

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Bet is to dye þan haue indigence

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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 December 2024].

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