The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

[6-text p 589]

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.]

& Incipit prologus Rectoris fabule [Egerton 2726, on leaf240, back]

                                      
                                        By that þe Maunciple / hade his tale ended.
                                      
                                        The son from þe South lyne/ was discended.
                                      
                                        So lowe that he nas nat/ to my sight/
                                      
                                        Degrees .ix. / and .xxty of hight/
                                        Line 4 
                                      
                                        x. of þe Clok / it was tho as I gesse
                                      
                                        ffor .xj. fote / and litle more/ or lesse
                                      
                                        My shadow was / at thilk tyme as there
                                      
                                        Of soch fete / as my length parted were
                                        Line 8 
                                      
                                        In .vj fete equall / of proporcion [Eg. 2726 folio 241a] 
                                      
                                        There-with the mones exaltacion
                                      
                                        I mene libra / all-wey gan ascende
                                      
                                        As we were entryng/ at a thorpes ende
                                        Line 12 
                                      
                                        ffor which our hoost/ as he was wont to gye
                                      
                                        As in this caas / our ioly company
                                      
                                        Seid in this wise / lordynges euerychone
                                      
                                        Now lakketh vs no tales moo þan one
                                        Line 16 
                                      
                                        ffulfilled is my sentence / and my decree
                                      
                                        I trowe þat we han herde in ecch degree
                                      
                                        All-most fulfilled is / all myn ordenaunce
                                      
                                        I pray to god / so yeue hym right gode chaunce
                                        Line 20 
                                      
                                        That telleth/ this tale to vs lustely
                                      
                                        Sir preest koth he / art þou a vicary
                                      
                                        Or art þow parson / sey soth be thy fey
                                      
                                        Be what þou be / ne breke þou nat our pley

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 583
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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