The Multitext Edition > Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS. Peniarth 392 D
Epilogue to the Merchant's Tale
Folio 153v
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Xxth hertly wyl / for I wol nat rebelle
Xgayns youre wyl / a tale wol I telle
Haue me excused / if þt I speke amys
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My wyl is good / and lo my tale is this ~
¶ Here bigynneth the Frankeleyns tale
THise olde gentil Britons / in hir dayes
Of diuerse auentures / maden layes
Rymeyed / in hir firste Briton tonge
Whiche layes / with hir Instrumentz they songe
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Or ellis redden hem / for hir plesaūce
And oon of hem / haue I in remembraūce
Which I shal seyn / wt good wyl as I kan
¶ But sires / by cause I am a burel man
At my bigynnyng first I yow biseche
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Haue me excused / of my rude speche
I lerned neuere / Rethorik certeyn
Thyng þt I speke / It moot be bare and pleyn