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The Nun's Priest's Tale Folio 100r 2 of 16 folios

For whan degrees .xv. / were ascended

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Thanne krew he / þ^t it myghte nat ben amended

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His komb / was redder than the fyn coral

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And batayled / as it were a Castel wal

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His byle was blak and as the Ieet it shoon

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Lyk asure / were hise legges and his toon

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Hise nayles whitter / than the lylye flour

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And lyk the burned gold / was his colour

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This gentil cok / hadde in his gouernaūce

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Seuene hennes / for to doon Al his plesaūce

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Whiche were hise sustres / and his paramours

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And wonder lyke to hym / as of colours

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Of whiche / the faireste hewed on hire throte

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Was clepid / faire damoysele Pertelote

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Curteys she was / discret and debonaire

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And compaignable / and bar hir self so faire

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Syn thilke day / þ^t she was seuen nyght oold

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That trewely / she hath the herte in hoold

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Of Chaūtecler loken in euery lyth

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He loued hir so / þ^t wel was hym ther with

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But swich a ioye was it to here hem synge

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Whan þ^t / the brighte sonne gan to sprynge

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In swete acord / my leef is faren in londe

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For thilke tyme / as I haue vnderstonde

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Beestes and briddes / kouden speke and synge

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And so bifel / þ^t in a dawenynge

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As Chaūtecler among hise wyues alle

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Sat on his perche / that was in the halle

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And next hym sat this faire Pertelote

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This Chaūtecler gan gronen in his throte

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As man þ^t in his dreem / is drecched soore

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¶ And whan þ^t Pertelote / thus herde hym rore

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She was agast / and seyde herte deere

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What eyleth yow / to grone in this manere

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Ye ben a verray sleper / fy for shame

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¶ And he answerde / and seyde thus / madame

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I prey yow / þ^t ye take it nat agrief

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By god me mette / I was in swich meschief

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Right now / þ^t yet myn herte is soore afright

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Now god quod he / my sweuene recche aright

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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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