The Multitext Edition > Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS. Peniarth 392 D
The Summoner's Prologue
Folio 78v
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¶ The Prologe / of the Somnours tale ~
This Somnour in his Stiropes / hye he stood
Vp on this frere / his herte was so wood
That lyk an Aspen lief / he quook for Ire
¶ Lordynges quod he / but o thyng I desire
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I yow biseke / that of youre curteisye
Syn ye han herd / this false frere lye
As suffreth me / I may my tale telle
This frere bosteth / that he knoweth helle
And god it woot that it is litel wonder
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Freres and feendes / been but lyte a sonder