The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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3. THE NUN'S PRIEST'S END-LINK.

[Camb. Univ. MS Dd. 4. 24, on leaf 195.]

                                    
                                      [Sire Nonnes Preest / oure hoost seide a-noon
                                    
                                      I-blissed be thy breche / & euery ston
                                    
                                      This was a murie tale / of Chauntecleer
                                    
                                      But by my trouthe / if þou were seculer
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                                      Thow woldest ben a tredfoul / a right
                                    
                                      ffor if þou haue corage / as þou hast myght
                                    
                                      The were nede of hennes / as I wene
                                    
                                      Ȝa / moo than seuene tymes / seuentene
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                                      Se which braunes / hath this gentil Preest [Camb. Univ. MS Dd. 4. 24 folio 195b] 
                                    
                                      So gret a nekke / & swich a large breest
                                    
                                      He loketh as a sparhauke / with hise eyen
                                    
                                      Him nedeth nat / his colour for to dyghen
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                                      With brasile / ne with greyn of Portyngale
                                    
                                      Now sire / faire falle ȝow / for ȝoure tale
                                    
                                      And after that / he with ful merie chere
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                                      Seide vn-to a nother / as ȝe shuln heere] [[Camb. Dd. 4. 24 ex|tract stops]]  [[Group G (Second Nun and Canon's Yeoman) imperfect, follows in the MS.]]

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 28*
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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