The Summoner's Tale
Folio 81r
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He is as angry / as a Pissemyre
Thogh that he haue / al that he kan desire
Thogh I hym wrye a nyght and make hym warm
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And on hym leye / my leg outher myn arm
He groneth lyk oure boor / lyth in oure Sty
Oother disport right noon of hym haue I
I may nat plese hym / in no maner cas
¶ O Thomas Ie vous dy / Thomas / Thomas
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This maketh the feend / this moste been amended
Ire is a thyng that hye god defended
And ther of / wol I speke / a word / or two
¶ Now maister quod the wyf / er þt I go
What wol ye dyne / I wol go ther aboute
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¶ Now dame quod he / now Ie vous dy sanz doute
Haue I nat of a Capoū / but the lyuere
And of youre softe breed / nat but a Shyuere
And after that a rosted pigges heed
But þt I nolde / no beest for me were deed
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Thanne hadde I with yow / homly suffisaunce
I am a man / of litel sustenaunce
My spirit hath his fostryng in the bible
The body is ay / so redy and penyble
To wake / that my stomak is destroyed
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I pray yow dame / ye be nat anoyed
Thogh I so freendly / yow my conseil shewe
By god / I wolde nat telle it but a fewe
¶ Now sire quod she / but o word / er I go
My child is deed / with Inne thise wykes two
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Soone after that ye wente / out of this town
¶ His deeth say I / by reuelacioun
Seith this frere / at hom in oure dortour
I dar wel seyn / that er þt half an hour
After his deeth / I say hym born to blisse
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In myn avisioū / so god me wisse
So dide oure Sexteyn / and oure Fermerer
That han been trewe freres fifty yeer
They may now / god be thanked / of his lone
Maken hir Iubilee / and walke allone
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And vp I roos / and al oure Couent eke
With many a teere / triklyng on my cheke