The Multitext Edition > London, British Library MS. Lansdowne 851
The Clerk's Tale
Folio 114r
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¶ Incipit prologus clta .
Sir Clerc of Oxenforde owre Oste seide
Ȝe ride as stiƚƚ & coie as doþ amaide
Weer newe spowsed sittinge att þe borde
This daie ne herde .I. of ȝoure tounge a worde
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.I trowe þat ȝe stody aboute some sophime
Bot Salomon seiþe euery þinge haþe time
For godes sake beþe of Better chier
It is no time for to stodie here .