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The Summoner's Tale Folio 108v 1 of 17 folios

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Hold vp þy tayl þou Sathanas quod he

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Schew forth þyn ars and let þe frere se

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Wher is þe nest of freres in þis place /

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And er þan half a forlong way of space

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Right so as bees swarmen out of an hyue

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Out of þe deueles ers þay gonne dryue

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Twenty þousand freres on a route /

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And þorugh out helle swarmed al aboute /

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And comen as fast as þay may goon

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And in his ers þay crepen euerich oon

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He clappid his tayl agayn and lay ful stille

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This frere whan he loked had his fille

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Vpon þe torment of þis sory place

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His spirit god restored of his grace /

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Vnto his body agayn and he awook

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But naþeles for fere ȝit he quook

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So was þe deueles ers ȝit in his mynde /

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That is his heritage of verray kynde /

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God saue ȝow alle saue þis cursed frere /

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My proloug wol I ende in þis manere

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¶ Narrat

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LOrdyngs þer is . in Engelond I gesse

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A mersschly lond called holdernesse

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In which þer went a lymytour aboute

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To preche and eek to begge it is no doute

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And so bifel it . on a day þis frere

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Had preched at a chirch in his manere

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And specially abouen euery þing

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Excited he þe poepul in his preching

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To trentals and to ȝiue for goddis sake

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Wher þat men mighten holy soules make

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Ther as diuine seruys is honoured

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Nought þer as it is wasted and deuoured

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Neither it needeþ not for to be ȝiue

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As to possessioneres þat mow lyue

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Thanked be god in wele and abundaunce

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Trentals sayd he delyuereth fro penaunce

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Her frendes soules as wel eld as ȝonge

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Ȝe whanne þat þay hastily ben songe

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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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