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

GROUP I. FRAGMENT X.

§ 1. THE BLANK-PARSON LINK.

[This is really a link between some unwritten Tale and the Parson's. It has been made into the Manciple-Parson Link (or Yeoman-Parson by the Christ-Church MS) by Chaucer's copiers, though not meant for it.]

¶ The Prologe / of the Persons tale /. HENGWRT MS. [folio 235a]

                                    
                                      BY that the 1Manciple1 [[1_1 over an erasure]]  hadde his tale al ended
                                    
                                      The Sonne / fro the South lyne is descended
                                    
                                      So lowe / that he nas nat to my sighte
                                    
                                      Degrees .29. as of highte
                                      Line 4 
                                    
                                      Ten of the Clokke / it was / so as I gesse
                                    
                                      ffor .xj. foot and litel moore / or lesse
                                    
                                      My shadwe was / at thilke tyme as there
                                    
                                      Of swich feet/ as my lengthe parted weere
                                      Line 8 
                                    
                                      In .6. feet equal / of proporcion
                                    
                                      Ther with / the Mones exaltacion
                                    
                                      I mene Libra / alwey gan ascende
                                    
                                      As we were entryng at a Thropes ende
                                      Line 12 
                                    
                                      ffor which oure hoost as he was wont to gye
                                    
                                      As in this cas / oure Ioly compaignye
                                    
                                      Seyde in this wise / lordynges euerichon
                                    
                                      Now lakketh vs / no tales / mo than oon
                                      Line 16 
                                    
                                      ffulfild is my Sentence / and my decree
                                    
                                      I trowe / þat we han herd of ech degree
                                    
                                      Almoost fulfild is al myn ordinaunce
                                    
                                      I pray to god / so yeue hym right good chaunce
                                      Line 20 
                                    
                                      That telleth this tale / to vs lustily
                                    
                                      Sire preest quod he / artow a Vicary
                                    
                                      Or arte a person / sey sooth by thy fey
                                    
                                      Be what thow be / ne breke thow nat oure pley

                                      Line 24

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 555
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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