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The Monk's Prologue Folio 88r 1 of 3 folios

¶ Here bigynneth the prologe of the Monkes xxxx

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WHan ended was my tale / of Melibee

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And of Prudence / and hir benygnitee

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Oure hoost seyde / as I am feithful man

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And by / that precious corpus Madrian

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I hadde leuere / than a barel Ale

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That goode lief my wyf / hadde herd this tale

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She nys no thyng of swich pacience

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As was / this Melibeus wif Prudence

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By goddes bones / whan I bete my knaues

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She bryngeth me / the grete clobbed staues

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And crieth / slee the dogges euerichon

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And breke hem / bothe bak and euery bon

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And if þ^t / any neighebore / of myne

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Wol nat in chirche / to my wyf enclyne

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Or be so hardy / to hir to trespace

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Whan she cometh / she raumpeth in my face

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And crieth / false coward wrek thy wyf

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By corpus bones / I wol haue thy knyf

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And thow shalt haue my distaf and go spynne

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Fro day to nyght right thus she wol bigynne

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Allas she seith / þ^t euere þ^t I was shape

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To wedden a Milksope / or a coward Ape

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That wol been ouerlad / of euery wight

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Thow darst nat stonden / by thy wyues right

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This is my lif but if þ^t I wol fighte

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And out at dore / anoon I moot me dighte

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Or ellis I am but lost but if þ^t I

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Be lyk a wilde leoū / fool hardy

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I woot wel / she wol do me sle som day

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Som neighebore / and thanne go my way

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For I am perilous / with knyf in honde

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Al be it that I dar nat hir withstonde

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For she is big in armes / by my feith

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That shal he fynde / þ^t hir mysdooth / or seith

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But lat vs passe awey / fro this matere

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¶ My lord the Monk quod he / be myrie of cheere

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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 22 January 2025].

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