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Introduction to the Man of Law's Tale Folio 112r 1 of 3 folios

¶ The prohemie of the Mannes tale of Laxx

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Ovre hoost saw wel that the brighte sonne

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The ark of his artificial day hath ronne

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The ferthe part and half an hour and moore

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And thogh he were nat depe ystert in loore

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He wiste it was the xviij. the day

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Of April / that is messager to May

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And saw wel / þ^t the shadwe of euery tree

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Was as in lengthe / the same quantitee

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That was the body erect that caused it

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And therfore by the shadwe / he took his wit

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That Phebus / which þ^t shoon so cleer and brighte

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Degrees was .xlv. clombe on highte

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And for that day / as in that latitude

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It was ten at the Clokke he gan conclude

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And sodeynly / he plighte his hors aboute

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¶ Lordynges quod he I warne yow al this route

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The ferthe party of this day is goon

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Now for the loue of god / and of Seint Ioħn

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Leseth no tyme / as ferforth as ye may

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Lordynges the tyme / it wasteth nyght and day

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And steleth from vs / what pryuely slepynge

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And what thurgh necligence / in oure wakynge

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As dooth the streem þ^t turneth neuere agayn

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Descendynge fro the montaigne in to playn

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Wel kan Senec and many a Philosophre

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Biwaillen tyme / moore than gold in cofre

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For los of catel may recouered be

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But los of tyme shendeth vs quod he

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It wol nat come agayn / with outen drede

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Namoore / than wol Malkyns maydenhede

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Whan she hath lost it / in hir wantownesse

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Lat vs nat / mowlen thus in ydelnesse

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¶ Sire man of lawe quod he / so haue ye blys

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Tel vs a tale anon / as forward is

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Ye been submitted / thurgh youre free assent

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To stonden in this cas / at my Iuggement

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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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