The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue Folio 202r 1 of 5 folios
The tr mentour / but for no maner chaunce
He mygħ t nat smyte / al hire nekke a two
And for þ er e was that tyme / an ordinaunce
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That noman / shulde do man / swicħ penaunce
The ferthe strok to smyten / softe or soore
This turmentour / ne durste do nomore
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He lefte hire lye / and on his wey is went
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The ci stene folk / whicħ þ t a boute hire were
Witħ shetes / han the blod / ful faire I hent
Three dayes lyued she / in this turment
And neuer e cessed / hem the feitħ to Corrected from: prechetechepreche teche
That she had fostred / hē / she gan to preche
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And hē she ȝaf / hire meebles & hire thyng
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And to the Pope vrban / bytok hem tho
To haue respit / three dayes and no moo
To recomende to ȝow / er that I go
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Theise soules lo / and that I mygħ t do werche
Heere of myn hous / per petuelly a chirche
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The body fette / and buryed it by nygħ te
A mong hise othere Seyntes / honestly
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Hire hous / the Chirche of Seynt Cecile higħ te
Seynt vrban halwed it / as he wel mygħ te
In whicħ / in to this day / in noble wyse
Men don to Crist / and to his seynt seruyse ¶ Amen¶ A men.
Prologe of the Chanouns ȝeman ;
Wh an that told was / the lyf of Seynt Cecile
Er we had riden fully / fyue myle
At Bougħ ton vnder blee / vs gan a take
A man / þ t clothed was / in clothes blake
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His hakeney / whicħ þ t was / al pomely grys
So swat / that it wonder was to se
It semed / as he had pryked myles three
Aboute the peyntrel / stod the fome ful hye
He was of fome / al flekked as a Pye