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The Franklin's Tale Folio 154r 2 of 24 folios

I sleepe neuere / in the Mount of Parnaso

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Ne lerned / Marcus Tullius Scithero

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Colours ne knowe I none / with outen drede

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But swiche colours / as growen in the mede

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Or ellis swiche / as men dye / or peynte

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Colours of Rethoryk they ben to queynte

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My Spirit feeleth nat of swich matere

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But if yow list my tale shul ye heere

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IN Armorik that called is Britayne

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Ther was a knyght þ^t louede & dide his payne

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To serue a lady / in his beste wise

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And many a labour / many a gret emprise

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He for his lady wroghte / er she were wonne

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For she was / oon the faireste vnder Sonne

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And eek ther to / come of so heigh kynrede

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That wel vnnethes / dorste this knyght for drede

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Telle hir his wo / his peyne / and his distresse

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But atte laste / she for his worthynesse

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And namely / for his meke obeysance

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Hath swich a pitee caught of his penance

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That pⁱuely / she fel of his acord

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To taken hym / for hir housbonde & hir lord

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Of swich lordshipe / as men han ouer hir wyues

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And for to lede / the moore in blisse hir lyues

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Of his fre wyl / he swoor hir as a knyght

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That neuere in al his lyf he day ne nyght

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Ne sholde vp on hym take / no maistrye

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Agayn hir wyl / ne kithe hir Ialousye

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But hir obeye / and folwe hir wyl in al

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As any louere / to his lady shal

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Saue / þ^t the name of soueraynetee

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That wolde he haue / for shame of his degree

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¶ She thonked hym / and w^t ful gret hūblesse

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She seyde sire / sith of youre gentilesse

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Ye profre me / to haue so large a reyne

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Ne wolde neuere god / bitwix vs tweyne

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As in my gilt / were outher werre / or stryf

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Sire I wol be / your hūble trewe wyf

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Haue heer my trouthe / til that myn herte breste

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Thus been they bothe / in quiete and in reste

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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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