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The Manciple's Tale Folio 111v 7 of 7 folios

xx xone ful ofte / for to muche speche

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xath many a man ben spilt as clerkes teche

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But for litel speche auysely

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Is no man shent to speke generally

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My sone / thy tonge sholdestow restreyne

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At alle tymes / but whan thow doost thy peyne

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To speke of god / in honour and prayere

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The firste vertu sone / if thow wolt leere

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Is to restreyne / and kepe wel thy tonge

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230

Thus lernen children / whan þ^t they ben yonge

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My sone / of muchel spekyng yuele auysed

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Ther lasse spekyng hadde ynow suffised

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Comth muchel harm / thus was me told & taught

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In muchel speche / synne wanteth naught

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235

Wostow wher of a rakel tonge serueth

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Right as a swerd / forkitteth and forkerueth

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An arm atwo / my deere sone right so

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A tonge / kitteth frendship al atwo

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A Ianglere is to god abhomynable

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240

Rede Salomon / so wys and honurable

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Rede Dauid in his psalmes / rede Senekke .

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My sone / spek noght but w^t thyn hed thow bekke

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Dissimule as thow were deef if þ^t thow heere

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A Ianglere speke / of perilous matere

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245

¶ The flemyng seith and lerne it if thee leste

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That litel Ianglyng causeth muchel reste

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My sone / if thow no wikked word hast seyd

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Thee thar nat drede / for to be biwreyd

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But he þ^t hath mysseyd / I dar wel sayn

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250

He may by no wey / clepe his word agayn

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Thyng that is sayd / is seyd / and forth it gooth

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Though hym repente / or be hym leef or looth

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He is his thral / to whom þ^t he hath sayd

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A tale / of which he is now yuele apayd

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255

My sone be war / and be noon Auctour newe

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Of tidynges wher they ben false or trewe

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Wher so thow come / amonges heye or lowe

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Kepe wel thy tonge / and thynk vp on the Crowe

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¶ Here is ended / the Manciples tale / of the Crowe ~

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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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