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The Man of Law's Tale Folio 113r 1 of 31 folios

But certeinly / no word ne writeth he

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Of thilke wikke ensample / of Canacee

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That loued / hir owene brother synfully

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Of swiche cursed stories / I sey fy

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Or ellis / of Tyro Appollonius

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How þ^t / the cursed kyng Antiochus

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Birafte his doghter / of hir maydenhede

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That is / so horrible a tale for to rede

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Whan he hir threw / vp on the pauement

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And ther fore / he of ful auisement

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Nolde neuere write / in noon of his sermons

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Of swiche / vnkynde abhominacions

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Ne I wol noon reherce / if þ^t I may

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But of my tale / how shal I doon this day

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Me were looth / be likned doutelees

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To Muses / þ^t been clepyd Pierides

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Methamorphosios / woot what I mene

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But nathelees / I recche noght a bene

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Thogh I come after hym / with hawe bake

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I speke in prose / and lat hym rymes make

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And with that word / he with a sobre cheere

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Bigan his tale / as ye shal after heere

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¶ Here bigynneth the tale ~

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O hateful harm / condicion of pouerte

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With thurst with cold / w^t hunger so confoundid

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To axen help / thee shameth in thyn herte

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If thou noon axe / with nede artow so woundid

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That verray nede / vnwrappeth al thy wounde hid

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Maugree thyn heed / thou most for Indigence

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Or stele / or begge / or borwe thy despence

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¶ Thou blamest Crist and seist ful bitterly

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He mysdeparteth / richesse temporal

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Thy neghebore / thow witest synfully

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And seist thow hast to lite / and he hath al

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Parfay seistow / som tyme he rekne shal

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Whan þ^t his tayl / shal brennen in the gleede

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For he noght helpeth / nedefulle in hir nede

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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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