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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395628" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Canterbury Tales; The Persouns Tale</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">PROLOGUE TO THE PERSOUNS TALE</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heere folweth the Prologe of the Persouns tale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By that the Maunciple hadde his tale al ended,<br>The sonne fro the south lyne was descended<br>So lowe, that he nas nat to my sighte<br>Degrees nyne and twenty as in highte.<br>Ten of the clokke it was tho, as I gesse,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ellevene foot, or litel moore or lesse,<br>My shadwe was at thilke tyme as there,<br>Of swiche feet as my lengthe parted were<br>In sixe feet equal of proporcioun.<br>Therwith the moones exaltacioun,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I meene Libra, alwey gan ascende,<br>As we were entryng at a thropes ende.<br>For which our Hoost, as he was wont to gye,<br>As in this caas, oure joly compaignye,<br>Seyde in this wise, 'Lordynges everichoon,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now lakketh us no tales mo than oon,<br>Fulfilled is my sentence and my decree;<br>I trowe that we han herd of ech degree.<br>Almoost fulfild is al myn ordinaunce,<br>I pray to God, so yeve hym right good chaunce</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That telleth this tale to us lustily!<br>'Sire preest,' quod he, 'artow a vicary,<br>Or arte a person? sey sooth by thy fey.<br>Be what thou be, ne breke thou nat oure pley;<br>For every man save thou hath toold his tale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unbokele and shewe us what is in thy male,<br>For trewely, me thynketh by thy cheere<br>Thou sholdest knytte up wel a greet mateere.<br>Telle us a fable anon, for Cokkes bones.'<br>This Persoun him answerede, al atones,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Thou getest fable noon ytoold for me,<br>For Paul, that writeth unto Thymothee,<br>Repreveth hem that weyveth soothfastnesse,<br>And tellen fables, and swich wrecchednesse.<br>Why sholde I sowen draf out of my fest</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whan I may sowen whete, if that me lest?<br>For which I seye, if that yow list to heere,<br>Moralitee and vertuous mateere;<br>And thanne that ye wol yeve me audience,<br>I wol ful fayn, at Cristes reverence,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do yow plesaunce leefful, as I kan.<br>But trusteth wel I am a southren man,<br>I kan nat geeste Rum, Ram, Ruf by lettre,<br>Ne, God woot, rym holde I but litel bettre,<br>And therfore if yow list, I wol nat glose,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wol yow telle a myrie tale in prose<br>To knytte up al this feeste, and make an ende,<br>And Jesu, for his grace, wit me sende<br>To shewe yow the wey, in this viage,<br>Of thilke parfit glorious pilgrymage</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That highte Jerusalem celestial.<br>And if ye vouchesauf, anon I shal<br>Bigynne upon my tale, for which I preye,<br>Telle youre avys, I kan no bettre seye.<br>But nathelees, this meditacioun</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I putte it ay under correccioun<br>Of clerkes, for I am nat textueel;<br>I take but sentence, trusteth weel.<br>Therfore I make a protestacioun<br>That I wol stonde to correccioun.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon this word we han assented soone;<br>For, as us semed, it was for to doone<br>To enden in som vertuous sentence,<br>And for to yeve hym space and audience;<br>Adn bede oure Hoost he sholde to hym seye</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That alle we to telle his tale hym preye.<br>Oure Hoost hadde the wordes for us alle:<br>'Sire preest,' quod he, 'now faire yow bifalle,<br>Sey what yow list, and we wol gladly heere.'<br>And with that word he seyde in this manere,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Telleth,' quod he, 'youre meditacioun;<br>But hasteth yow, the sonne wole adoun.<br>Beth fructuous, and that in litel space,<br>And to do wel God sende yow his grace.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Geoffrey+Chaucer">Geoffrey Chaucer</a><div class=q>
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