The Monk's Tale Folio 182r 17 of 18 folios
Thanne wold she suffre hī / done his fantasie
Eft sone / and nat but ones / out of drede
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Nomore shulde he pleyen / thilke game
Til fully fourty dayes / weren past
Thā ne wolde she ones suffre hī / do the same
Al were this Onedake / wylde or tame
He gat nomore of hire / for thus she seide
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The whicħ she kept in vertu / and lettrure
But now / vn to oure tale / turne we
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So penyble in the werre / & curteis eke
Ne more labour mygħ t / in werre endure
Was none / thougħ al this world mē shulde seke
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She was al clad / in perry / and in golde
And eke she left nougħ t / for non huntynge
To haue of sondry tonges / ful knowynge
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Whan þ t she leiser hadde / & for to entende
To lerne bookes / was al hire likynge
How she in vertu / mygħ t hire lyf despende
So dougħ ty was hire housbond / & eke she
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That they cō quered / many regnes grete
In the orient / wt many a fair Citee
Apper tenaū t / vn to the Magestee
Of Rome / & wt strongē ful faste
Ne neuer e mygħ t here foomen / don hē flee
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Ay / whil that Onedakes dayes / laste
And how þ t al this pro cesse / fel in dede
Why she cō quered / & what title þ er to
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And after of hire myschef / & hire woo
How þ t she was byseged / and I take
Lat hī / vn to my Maister / Petrak go
That wryt I now / of this / I vndertake