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Words of the Franklin to the Squire Folio 137v 1 of 1 folios

¶ xxxxpit tercia pars

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Appollo whirleth vp / his Char so hye

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Til that / the god Mercuries hous the slye

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¶ The prologe / of the Marchaūtes tale ~

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IN feith Squyer / thow hast thee wel yquyt

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And gentilly / I preise wel thy wit

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Quod the Marchant considerynge thy youthe

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So feelyngly thow spekest sire I allow the

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As to my doom / ther is noon þ^t is heere

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Of eloquence / þ^t shal be thy peere

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If þ^t thow lyue / god yeue thee good chaunce

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And in vertu / sende thee continuaunce

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For of thy speche / I haue gret deyntee

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I haue a sone / and by the Trinitee

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I hadde leuere / than .xxti. pound worth lond

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Thogh it right now . / were fallen in myn hond

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He were a man / of swich discrecioū

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As þ^t ye ben / fy on possessioū

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But if a man / be vertuous w^t al

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I haue my sone snybbed / and yit shal

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For he to vertu / lusteth nat entende

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But for to pleye at dees / and to despende

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And lese al that he hath / is his vsage

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And he hath leuere / talken w^t a page

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Than to cōmune / with any gentil wight

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Wher he myghte lerne / gentillesse aright

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¶ Straw for youre gentillesse / quod oure hoost

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What Marchaūt / pardee sire wel thow woost

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That ech of yow / moot tellen atte leeste

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A tale / or two / or breken his biheste

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¶ That knowe I wel sire / quod the Marchant certeyn

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I prey yow / haueth me nat in desdeyn

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Thogh to this man / I speke a word or two

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¶ Telle on thy tale with outen wordes mo

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¶ Gladly sire hoost quod he / I wol obeye

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Vn to youre wyl / now herkneth what I seye

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I wole yow nat cont^arien in no wise

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As fer / as þ^t my wittes wole suffise

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I prey to god / that it may plesen yow

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Thanne woot I wel / that it is good ynow

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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 10 September 2024].

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