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The Pardoner's Prologue & Tale Folio 196v 17 of 17 folios

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¶ Swich folk / shal haue no power / ne no g^ace

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To offren to my Relikes / in this place

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And who so fyndeth hym / out of swich blame

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He wol come vp / and offre a goddes name

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And I assoille hym / by the auctoritee

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Which þ^t by bulle / ygraunted was to me

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¶ By this gaude / haue I wonne / yeer by yeer

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An hundred mark sith I was Pardoner

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I stonde lyk a Clerk / in my pulpet

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And whan þ^t lewed peple / is doun yset

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I perche so / as ye han herd bifore

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And telle / an hundred false Iapes more

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Thanne peyne I me / to strecche forth the nekke

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And Est and West vp on the peple I bekke

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As dooth a dowue / sittyng on a berne

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Myne handes / and my tonge goon so yerne

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That it is ioye / to se my bisynesse

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Of Auarice / and of swich cursednesse

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Is al my perchyng for to make hem free

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To yeuen hir pens / and namely vn to me

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For myn entente is nat but for to wynne

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And no thyng for correccioū of synne

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I rekke neuere / whan þ^t they been beryed

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Thogh þ^t hir soules / goon a blakeberyed

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For certes / many a perdicacioū

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Comth ofte tyme / of yuel entencioū

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¶ Som for plesance of folk and flaterye

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To been auanced / by ypocrisie

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And som for veyne glorie / and som for hate

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For whan I dar / noon oother weyes debate

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Thanne wol I stynge hym / w my tonge smerte

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In perchyng so þ^t he shal nat asterte

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To been diffamed falsly / if þ^t he

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Hath trespased / to my bretheren / or to me

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For though I telle noght his propre name

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Men shal wel knowe / that it is the same

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By signes / and by othere circumstances

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Thus quyte I folk that \doon/ vs displesances

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Thus spete I out my venym vnder hewe

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Of holynesse / to seme holy and trewe

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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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