[6-text p 282]
That on youre bridel hange / on euery syde
By heuene kyng þat for vs alle dyde
I sholde er this / haue fallen doun for sleepe
Al thogh the slow / hadde neuere ben so deepe
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Thanne hadde youre tale / al be toold in veyn
ffor certeynly / as þat thise clerkes seyn
Where as a man / may haue noon audience
Naught helpeth it to tellen his sentence
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And wel I woot the substance is in me
If any thyng shal wel reported be
Sire / sey som what of huntyng I yow preye
¶ Nay quod this Monk I haue no lust to pleye
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Now lat another telle / as I haue toold
¶ Thanne spak oure hoost with rude speche & boold
And seyde / vn-to the Nonnes preest anon
Com neer thow preest com hider thow sir Iohn
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Telle vs swich thyng as may oure hertes glade
Be blythe / though thow ryde vp-on a Iade
What though thyn hors / be bothe foul and lene
If he wol serue thee / rekke nat a bene
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Looke / that thyn herte / be murye euere mo
¶ Yis sire quod he / yis hoost so mote I go
But I be murye / ywis I wol be blamed
And right anon / his tale he hath attamed
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And thus he seyde / vn-to vs euerichon
This sweete preest this goodly man sir Iohn
Explicit.
