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The Manciple's Tale Folio 108v 1 of 7 folios

Xxd certeynly / to tellen as it was

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Of this vessel / the Cook drank faste / allas

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What neded it he drank ynow biforn

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And whan he hadde / powped in this horn

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To the Manciple / he took the gourde agayn

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And of that drynke / the Cook was wonder fayn

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And thanked hym / in swich wise as he kowde

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¶ Thanne gan oure hoost to laughen wonder lowde

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And seyde / I se wel it is necessarie

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Where þ^t we goon / good drynke we w^t vs carye

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For that wol turne / rancour and disese

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Tacord and loue / a many a wrong appese

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¶ O Bacus / yblessed be thy name

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That so kanst turnen / ernest in to game

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Worshipe and thank be to thy deitee

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Of that matere / ye gete namoore for me

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Telle on thy Manciple / I the preye

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Wel ser quod he / now herkneth what I seye

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¶ Here bigynneth the Manciples tale / of the Crowe

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Whan Phebus / dwelled here / in this erthe adoun

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As olde bokes / maken mencioun

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He was / the mooste lusty bachiler

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In al this world / and eek the beste Archer

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He slow Phitoū the serpent as he lay

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Slepynge agayn the sonne vp on a day

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And many another noble worthy dede

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He w^t his bowe wroghte / as men may rede

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Pleyen he koude / on euery Mynstralcye

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And syngen / þ^t it was a melodye

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To heren / of his clere voys / the soun

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Certes / the kyng of Thebes Amphioun

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That w^t his syngyng walled that Citee

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Koude neuere syngen / half so wel as he

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Therto / he was the semelieste man

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That is / or was / sith þ^t the world bigan

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What nedeth it hise fetures to discryue

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For in this world / was noon so fair on lyue

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He was ther with / fulfild of gentillesse

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Of honour and of parfit worthynesse

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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 14 December 2024].

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