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The Miller's Tale Folio 42r 1 of 18 folios

And therfore / euery gentil wight I preye

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Demeth noght for goddes loue / p I seye

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Of yuel entente / but for I moot reherse

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Hir tales alle / be they bet or werse

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Or ellis falsen / som of my matere

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And therfore / who so list it noght yhere

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Turne ouer the leef / and chese another tale

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For he shal fynde ynowe / grete and smale

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Of storial thyng that toucheth gentilesse

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And eek moralitee / and holynesse

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Blameth noght me / if p ye chese amys

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The Millere is a cherl / ye knowe wel this

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So was the Reue eek and othere mo

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And harlotrye / they tolden bothe two

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Auyseth yow / and put me out of blame

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And eek / men shal noght maken ernest of game

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¶ Here bigynneth / the Millerys tale ~

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Whilom / ther was dwellyng in Oxenford

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A riche gnof that gestes heeld to bord

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And of his craft he was a Carpenter

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With hym ther was dwellynge a poure Scoler

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Hadde lerned Art but al his fantasie

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Was turned / for to leere Astrologie

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And koude / a certeyn of conclusions

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To demen / by interrogacions

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If þ^t men axed hym / in certein houres

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Whan þ^t men sholde haue droghte / or ellis shoures

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Or if men axed hym / what shal bifalle

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Of euery thyng / I may nat rekene hem alle

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¶ This clerk / was clepyd hende Nicholas

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Of derne loue he koude / and of solas

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And ther to he was sleigh / and ful pryuee

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And lyk a mayde meke / for to see

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A chambre hadde he / in that hostelrie

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Allone / with outen any compaignye

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Ful fetisly dight / with herbes swoote

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And he hym self as sweete as is the roote

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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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