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The Reeve's Tale Folio 51r 1 of 12 folios

Foure gleedes haue we / whiche I shal deuyse

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Auauntyng lyyng Anger Coueitise

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Thise foure sparkles / longen vn to eelde

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Oure lymes / mowe wel been vnweelde

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But wil ne shal noght faillen / that is sooth

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And yet I haue alwey / a coltes tooth

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As many a yeer / as it is passed henne

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Syn þ^t my tappe of lyf / bigan to renne

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For sikerlik whan ik was bore anon

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Deeth drogh the tappe of lyf / and leet it goon

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And euere sith / hath so the tappe yronne

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Til þ^t almoost / al empty is the tonne

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The streem of lyf / now droppeth on the chymbe

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The sely tonge / may wel rynge and chymbe

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Of wrecchednesse / þ^t passed is ful yoore

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With olde folk / saue dotage is namoore

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¶ Whan þ^t oure hoost hadde herd this sermonyng

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He gan to speke / as lordly as a kyng

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He seyde / what amounteth al this wit

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What shal we speke alday / of holy writ

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The deuel made / a Reue for to perche

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Or of a Souter / a Shipman / or a leche

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Sey forth thy tale / and tarie noght the tyme

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Lo Depeford / and it is half wey pryme

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Lo Grenewych / ther many a sherewe is Inne

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It were al tyme / thy tale to bigynne

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¶ Now sires / quod this Osewold the Reue

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I pray yow alle / þ^t ye noght yow greue

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Thogh I answere / and som del sette his howue

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For leueful is / with force / force of showue

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This dronken Miller / hath ytoold vs heer

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How þ^t / bigiled was a Carpenter

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Parauenture in scorn / for I am oon

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And by youre leue / I shal hym quyte anon

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Right / in his cherles termes / wol I speke

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I pray to god / his nekke mote to breke

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He kan wel / in myn eye / seen a stalke

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But in his owene / he kan noght seen a balke

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Narrat

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AT Trompyngtoū / nat fer fro Cantebrygge

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Ther gooth a brook / and ouer that a brygge

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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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