The Canterbury tales
Group 1
The Knight's Tale
Sequitur pars secunda.
* se loveres in hir queynte geres, /Now in the crope, now doun in the breres, /Now up, now doun, as boket in a welle. /Right as the friday, soothly for to telle, /Now it shyneth, now it reynet
Sequitur pars tercia
* okynge the temple, ful of clothes faire, /This emelye, with herte debonaire, /Hir body wessh with water of a welle. /But hou she dide hir ryte I dar nat telle, /But it be any thing in genera
Sequitur pars quarta.
* maketh this but juppiter, the kyng, /That is prince and cause of alle thyng, /Convertynge al unto his propre welle /From which it is dirryved, sooth to telle? /And heer-agayns no creature on
The Man of Law's Tale
* And forth I lete hire saille in this manere, /And turne I wole agayn to my matere. /The mooder of the sowdan, welle of vices, /Espied hath hir sones pleyn entente, /How he wol lete his olde sac
Group 3
The Wife of Bath's Prologue
* /That I ne sholde wedded be but ones. /Herkne eek, lo, which a sharp word for the nones, /Biside a welle, jhesus, God and man, /Spak in repreeve of the samaritan: /Thou hast yhad fyve
* Virginitee is greet perfeccion, /And continence eek with devocion, /But crist, that of perfeccion is welle, /Bad nat every wight he sholde go selle /Al that he hadde, and gyve it to th
The Summoner's Tale
* he noble usage of freres yet is this, /The worthy men of hem shul first be served; /And certeinly he hath it well disserved. /He hath to-day taught us so muche good /With prechyng in the pul
Group 4
The Clerk's Prologue
* /That been the boundes of west lumbardye, /And of mount vesulus in special, /Where as the poo out of a welle smal /Taketh his firste spryngyng and his sours, /That estward ay encresseth in
The Clerk's Tale
Incipit secunda pars
* For povreliche yfostred up was she, /No likerous lust was thurgh hire herte yronne. /Wel ofter of the welle than of the tonne /She drank, and for she wolde vertu plese, /She knew wel la
* Grisilde of this, God woot, ful innocent, /That for hire shapen was al this array, /To fecchen water at a welle is went, /And cometh hoom as soone as ever she may; /For wel she hadde herd s
The Merchant's Tale
* priapus ne myghte nat suffise, /Though he be God of gardyns, for to telle /The beautee of the gardyn and the welle, /That stood under a laurer alwey grene. /Ful ofte tyme he pluto and his qu
* d his queene, /Proserpina, and al hire fayerye, /Disporten hem and maken melodye /Aboute that welle, and daunced, as men tolde. /This noble knyght, this januarie the olde, /Sw
Group 5
The Squire's Tale
Sequitur pars secunda
* rsitee, /Til I koude flee ful hye under the sky. /Tho dwelte a tercelet me faste by, /That semed welle of alle gentillesse; /Al were he ful of treson and falsnesse, /It was so wrap
The Franklin's Tale
* romen by the see, but disconfort, /And shopen for to pleyen somwher elles. /They leden hire by ryveres and by welles, /And eek in othere places delitables; /They dauncen, and they pleyen at che
* se woful maydens, ful of drede, /Rather than they wolde lese hir maydenhede, /They prively been stirt into a welle, /And dreynte hemselven, as the bookes telle. / they of mecene leete enquer
Group 6
The Pardoner's Prologue
* t was of an hooly jewes sheep. /Goode men, I seye, taak of my wordes keep; /If that this boon be wasshe in any welle, /If cow, or calf, or sheep, or oxe swelle /That any worm hath ete, or worm y
* If cow, or calf, or sheep, or oxe swelle /That any worm hath ete, or worm ystonge, /Taak water of that welle and wassh his tonge, /And it is hool anon; and forthermoore, /O
* d forthermoore, /Of pokkes and of scabbe, and every soore /Shal every sheep be hool that of this welle /Drynketh a draughte. Taak kep eek what I telle -- /If that the good-man tha
* t the good-man that the beestes oweth /Wol every wyke, er that the cok hym croweth, /Fastynge, drynken of this welle a draughte, /As thilke hooly jew oure eldres taughte, /His beestes and his st
Group 7
The Prioress' Tale
* mynde, /And for the worship of his mooder deere /Yet may I synge o alma loude and cleere. /This welle of mercy, cristes mooder sweete, /I loved alwey, as after my konnynge; /And w
The Tale of Sir Thopas
Fitt II
* s wonger, /And by hym baiteth his dextrer /Of herbes fyne and goode. /Hymself drank water of the well, /As dide the knyght sire percyvell /So worthy under wede, /Til
The Tale of Melibee
* /nat oonly for thy gretteste enemys, but /Fro thy leeste enemy./ Senek seith: -- a man /That is well avysed, he dredeth his leste enemy. /-- / ovyde seith that -- the litel wesele
The Monk's Tale
Sampson
* drynke, or elles moste he deye; /And of this asses cheke, that was dreye, /Out of a wang-tooth sprang anon a welle, /Of which he drank ynogh, shortly to seye; /Thus heelp hym god, as judicum
Group 8
The Second Nun's Prologue
Invocacio ad mariam
* ictorie, /As man may after reden in hire storie. /Thow mayde and mooder, doghter of thy sone, /Thow welle of mercy, synful soules cure, /In whom that God for bountee chees to wone, /Tho
The Canon Yeoman's Tale
Part I
* is ther heere, though that we han nat al. /Although this thyng myshapped have as now, /Another tyme it may be well ynow. /Us moste putte oure good in aventure. /A marchant, pardee, may nat ay e
Group 10
The Parson's Tale
Part III
* /Hors that seketh rather to drynken drovy /Or trouble water than for to drynken water of /The clere welle. / and for as muchel as they /Yeven ther as they sholde nat yeven, to hem /Ap
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