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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395632" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Canterbury Tales; The Shipmannes Tale</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">PROLOGUE TO THE SHIPMANNES TALE</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here endith the man of lawe his tale. And next folwith<br>the Shipman his prolog.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oure Ost upon his stiropes stood anoon,<br>And seide, 'Good men, herkeneth everychoon;<br>This was a thrifty tale for the nonys.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sir parisshe preste,' quod he, 'for Godis bonys,<br>Telle us a tale, as was thi forward yore;<br>I se wel, that ye lernede men in lore<br>Can meche good, bi Godis dignite.'<br>The parson him answerde, 'Benedicite,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What eyleth the man so synfully to swere?'<br>Oure Ost answerde, 'O Jankyn, be ye there?<br>I smelle a Lollere in the wynde,' quod he,<br>'Howe, goodmen,' quod oure Hoste, 'herkeneth me,<br>Abyde for Godis digne passioun,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For we shul han a predicacioun,<br>This Lollere here wol prechen us somwhat.'<br>'Nay, bi Godis soule, that shal he nat,'<br>Seyde the Shipman, 'here shal he not preche,<br>He shal no gospel glosen here, ne teche.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We leven alle in the grete God,' quod he,<br>'He wolde sowen som difficulte<br>Or sprengen cokkel in oure clene corn.<br>And therfore, Ost, I warne the biforn,<br>My joly body shal a tale telle</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I shal clynkyn yow so mery a belle<br>That I shal wakyn al this companye;<br>But it shal not ben of Philosophie,<br>Ne phislyas, ne termes queynte of lawe;<br>Ther nis but litil Latyn in my mawe.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here endith the Shipman his prolog. And next folwyng <br>he bigynneth his tale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE TALE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Daun John, a monk of Paris, beguiles the wife of a <br>merchant of St. Denis by money borrowed from her husband.<br>She saves herself, on the point of discovery, by a ready<br>answer.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">END-LINK</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bihoold the murie wordes of the Hoost to the Shipman<br>and to the lady Prioresse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Wel seyd, by corpus dominus,' quod our Hoost,<br>'Now longe moote thou saille by the cost,<br>Sir gentil maister, gentil maryneer.<br>God yeve this monk a thousand last quade yeer!<br>A ha! felawes, beth ware of swich a jape.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The monk putte in the mannes hood an ape,<br>And in his wyves eek, by Seint Austyn;<br>Draweth no monkes moore unto your in.<br>But now passe over, and lat us seke aboute<br>Who shal now telle first of al this route</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another tale?' and with that word he sayde,<br>As curteisly as it had ben a mayde,<br>'My lady Prioresse, by youre leve,<br>So that I wiste I sholde yow nat greve,<br>I wolde demen that ye tellen sholde</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A tale next, if so were that ye wolde.<br>Now wol ye vouchesauf, my lady deere?'<br>'Gladly,' quod she, and seyde as ye shal heere.</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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