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The General Prologue Folio 10r 1 of 22 folios

Ne oynement. that wolde clense and byte

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That hym myghte helpen / of his whelkes whyte

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Nor of the knobbes / sittynge on his chekes

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Wel loued he garlek oynons and eek lekes

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And for to drynke strong wyn / reed as blood

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Thanne wolde he speke / and crye as he were wood

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A fewe t ermes hadde he / two / or thre

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That he hadde lerned / out of som decree

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No wonder is / he herde it al the day

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And eek ye knowe wel / how þ^t a Iay

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Kan clepen watte as wel as kan the Pope

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But who so koude / in oother thyng hym grope

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Thanne hadde he spent al his philosophie

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Ay Questio quid iuris / wolde he crye

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¶ He was a gentil harlot and a kynde

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A bettre felawe / sholde men noght fynde

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He wolde suffre / for a quart of wyn

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A good felawe / to haue his concubyn

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A twelf monthe / and excusen hym at the fulle

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Ful pryuely / a fynch eek koude he pulle

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And if he foond owher / a good felawe

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He wolde techen hym / to haue noon awe

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In swich caas / of the Ercedeknes curs

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But if a mannes soule / were in his purs

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For in his purs / he sholde ypunysshed be

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Purs is the Ercedeknes helle / seyde he

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¶ But wel I woot / he lyed right in dede

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660

Of cursyng oghte ech gilty man drede

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For curs wol sle / right as assoillyng sauyth

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And also / war hym of a Significauit

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¶ In daunger hadde he / at his owene gyse

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The yonge gerles / of the diocise

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And knew hir conseil / and was al hir reed

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A gerland / hadde he set vp on his heed

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As greet. as it were / for an Ale stake

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A bokeler / hadde he maad hym of a cake

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¶ With hym ther rood / a gentil Pardoner

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Of Rouncyual / his freend / and his comper

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That streight was comen / fro the Court of Rome

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Ful loude he soong com hyder loue to me

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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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