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The Nun's Priest's Tale Folio 99v 1 of 16 folios

¶ Here bigynneth / the Nonnes preestes tale of the Cok and Hen / Chaūtecler & Pertelote

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A poore widwe / som del stape in age

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Was whilom dwellynge / in a narwe cotage

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Biside a groue / stondyng in a dale

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This widwe / of which I telle yow my tale

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Syn thilke day / þ^t she was last a wyf

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In pacience / ladde a ful symple lyf

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For / litel was hir catel and hir rente

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By housbondrye / of swich as god hir sente

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She foond hir self / and eek hir doghtren two

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Thre large sowes / hadde she and namo

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Thre kyn / and eek a sheepe / þ^t highte Malle

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Ful sooty was hir bour / and eek hir halle

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In which she eet ful many a sklendre meel

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Of poynaūt sawce / hir neded neuer a deel

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No deyntee morsel / passed thurgh hir throte

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Hir diete / was acordant to hir cote

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Repleccioū / ne made hir neuere syk

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Attempree diete / was al hir phisyk

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And excercise / and hertes suffisaunce

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The gowte / lette hir no thyng for to daunce

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Napoplexie / shente nat hir heed

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No wyn ne drank she / neither whit ne reed

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Hir bord was serued / moost w^t whit and blak

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Milk and broun breed / in which she foond no lak

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Seynd bacoū / and som tyme an Ey / or tweye

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For she was / as it were / a maner deye

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A yeerd she hadde / enclosed al aboute

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With stikkes / and a drye dych w^t oute

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In which she hadde a cok heet Chaūtecler

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In al the land / of crowyng nas his peer

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His voys was murier / than the myrie Orgon

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On massedayes / þ^t in the chirche gon

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Wel sikerer was his crowyng in his logge

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Than is a Clokke / or any Abbey Orlogge

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By nature he krew ech ascencioū

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Of equinoxial / in thilke town

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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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