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whan that Aprille with his shoures sote the droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote and bathed every veyne in swich licour of which vertu engendred is the flour whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth inspired hath in every holt and heeth the tendre croppes and the yonge sonne hath in the ram his halfe cours yronne and smale fowles maken melodye that slepen al the night with open yë so priketh hem nature in hir corages than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages and palmeres for to seken straunge strondes to ferne halwes kowthe in sondry londes and specially from every shires ende of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende the holy blisful martir for to seke that hem hath holpen whan that they were seke bifil that in that seson on a day in Southwerk at the Tabard as i lay redy to wenden on my pilgrimage to Caunterbury with ful devout corage at night was come into that hostelrye wel nyne and twenty in a companye of sondry folk by aventure yfalle in felawshipe and pilgrimes were they alle that toward Caunterbury wolden ryde the chambres and the stables weren wyde and wel we weren esed atte beste and shortly whan the sonne was to reste so hadde i spoken with hem everichon that i was of hir felawshipe anon and made forward erly for to ryse to take our wey ther as i yow devyse but natheles whyl i have tyme and space er that i ferther in this tale pace me thinketh it acordaunt to resoun to telle yow al the condicioun of ech of hem so as it semed me and whiche they weren and of what degree and eek in what array that they were inne and at a knight than wol i first biginne a knight ther was and that a worthy man that fro the tyme that he first bigan to ryden out he loved chivalrye trouthe and honour fredom and curteisye ful worthy was he in his lordes werre and therto hadde he riden no man ferre as wel in cristendom as hethenesse and ever honoured for his worthinesse at alisaundre he was whan it was wonne ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bigonne aboven alle naciouns in pruce in lettow hadde he reysed and in ruce no cristen man so ofte of his degree in gernade at the sege eek hadde he be of algezir and riden in belmarye at lyeys was he and at satalye whan they were wonne and in the grete see at many a noble aryve hadde he be at mortal batailles hadde he been fiftene and foughten for our feith at tramissene in listes thryes and ay slayn his foo this ilke worthy knight had been also somtyme with the lord of palatye ageyn another hethen in turkye and evermore he hadde a sovereyn prys and though that he were worthy he was wys and of his port as meke as is a mayde he never yet no vileinye ne sayde in al his lyf unto no maner wight he was a verray parfit gentil knight but for to tellen yow of his array his hors were gode but he was nat gay of fustian he wered a gipoun al bismotered with his habergeoun for he was late ycome from his viage and wente for to doon his pilgrimage with him ther was his sone a yong squyer a lovyere and a lusty bacheler with lokkes crulle as they were leyd in presse of twenty yeer of age he was i gesse of his stature he was of evene lengthe and wonderly deliver and greet of strengthe and he had been somtyme in chivachye in flaundres in artoys and picardye and born him wel as of so litel space in hope to stonden in his lady grace embrouded was he as it were a mede al ful of fresshe floures whyte and rede singinge he was or floytinge al the day he was as fresh as is the month of may short was his goune with sleves longe and wyde wel coude he sitte on hors and faire ryde he coude songes make and wel endyte iuste and eek daunce and wel purtreye and wryte so hote he lovede that by nightertale he sleep namore than dooth a nightingale curteys he was lowly and servisable and carf biforn his fader at the table a yeman hadde he and servaunts namo at that tyme for him liste ryde so and he was clad in cote and hood of grene a sheef of pecok-arwes brighte and kene under his belt he bar ful thriftily wel coude he dresse his takel yemanly his arwes drouped noght with fetheres lowe and in his hand he bar a mighty bowe a not-heed hadde he with a broun visage of wode-craft wel coude he al the usage upon his arm he bar a gay bracer and by his syde a swerd and a bokeler and on that other syde a gay daggere harneised wel and sharp as point of spere a cristofre on his brest of silver shene an horn he bar the bawdrik was of grene a forster was he soothly as i gesse ther was also a nonne a prioresse that of hir smyling was ful simple and coy hir gretteste ooth was but by sëynt loy and she was cleped madame eglentyne ful wel she song the service divyne entuned in hir nose ful semely and frensh she spak ful faire and fetisly after the scole of stratford atte bowe for frensh of paris was to hir unknowe at mete wel ytaught was she with-alle she leet no morsel from hir lippes falle ne wette hir fingres in hir sauce depe wel coude she carie a morsel and wel kepe that no drope ne fille upon hir brest in curteisye was set ful muche hir lest hir over lippe wyped she so clene that in hir coppe was no ferthing sene of grece whan she dronken hadde hir draughte ful semely after hir mete she raughte and sikerly she was of greet disport and ful plesaunt and amiable of port and peyned hir to countrefete chere of court and been estatlich of manere and to ben holden digne of reverence but for to speken of hir conscience she was so charitable and so pitous she wolde wepe if that she sawe a mous caught in a trappe if it were deed or bledde of smale houndes had she that she fedde with rosted flesh or milk and wastel-breed but sore weep she if oon of hem were deed or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte and al was conscience and tendre herte ful semely hir wimpel pinched was hir nose tretys hir eyen greye as glas hir mouth ful smal and therto softe and reed but sikerly she hadde a fair forheed it was almost a spanne brood i trowe for hardily she was nat undergrowe ful fetis was hir cloke as i was war of smal coral aboute hir arm she bar a peire of bedes gauded al with grene and theron heng a broche of gold ful shene on which ther was first write a crowned a and after amor vincit omnia another nonne with hir hadde she that was hir chapeleyne and preestes three a monk ther was a fair for the maistrye an out-rydere that lovede venerye a manly man to been an abbot able ful many a deyntee hors hadde he in stable and whan he rood men mighte his brydel here ginglen in a whistling wind as clere and eek as loude as dooth the chapel-belle ther as this lord was keper of the celle the reule of seint maure or of seint beneit by-cause that it was old and som-del streit this ilke monk leet olde thinges pace and held after the newe world the space he yaf nat of that text a pulled hen that seith that hunters been nat holy men ne that a monk whan he is cloisterlees is lykned til a fish that is waterlees this is to seyn a monk out of his cloistre but thilke text held he nat worth an oistre and i seyde his opinioun was good what sholde he studie and make him-selven wood upon a book in cloistre alwey to poure or swinken with his handes and laboure as austin bit? how shal the world be served? lat austin have his swink to him reserved therfore he was a pricasour aright grehoundes he hadde as swifte as fowel in flight of priking and of hunting for the hare was al his lust for no cost wolde he spare i seigh his sleves purfiled at the hond with grys and that the fyneste of a lond and for to festne his hood under his chin he hadde of gold ywroght a curious pin a love-knotte in the gretter ende ther was his heed was balled that shoon as any glas and eek his face as he had been anoint he was a lord ful fat and in good point his eyen stepe and rollinge in his heed that stemed as a forneys of a leed his botes souple his hors in greet estat now certeinly he was a fair prelat he was nat pale as a for-pyned goost a fat swan loved he best of any roost his palfrey was as broun as is a berye a frere ther was a wantown and a merye a limitour a ful solempne man in alle the ordres foure is noon that can so muche of daliaunce and fair langage he hadde maad ful many a mariage of yonge wommen at his owne cost unto his ordre he was a noble post ful wel biloved and famulier was he with frankeleyns over-al in his contree and eek with worthy wommen of the toun for he had power of confessioun as seyde him-self more than a curat for of his ordre he was licentiat ful swetely herde he confessioun and plesaunt was his absolucioun he was an esy man to yeve penaunce ther as he wiste to han a good pitaunce for unto a povre ordre for to yive is signe that a man is wel yshrive for if he yaf he dorste make avaunt he wiste that a man was repentaunt for many a man so hard is of his herte he may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte therfore in stede of weping and preyeres men moot yeve silver to the povre freres his tipet was ay farsed ful of knyves and pinnes for to yeven faire wyves and certeinly he hadde a mery note wel coude he singe and pleyen on a rote of yeddinges he bar utterly the prys his nekke whyt was as the flour-de-lys therto he strong was as a champioun he knew the tavernes wel in every toun and everich hostiler and tappestere bet than a lazar or a beggestere for unto swich a worthy man as he acorded nat as by his facultee to have with seke lazars aqueyntaunce it is nat honest it may nat avaunce for to delen with no swich poraille but al with riche and sellers of vitaille and over-al ther as profit sholde aryse curteys he was and lowly of servyse ther nas no man no-wher so vertuous he was the beste beggere in his hous and yaf a certeyn ferme for the graunt noon of his bretheren cam ther in his haunt for thogh a widwe hadde noght a sho so plesaunt was his in principio yet wolde he have a ferthing er he wente his purchas was wel bettre than his rente and rage he coude as it were right a whelpe in love-dayes ther coude he muchel helpe for there he was nat lyk a cloisterer with a thredbar cope as is a povre scoler but he was lyk a maister or a pope of double worsted was his semi-cope that rounded as a belle out of the presse somwhat he lipsed for his wantownesse to make his english swete upon his tonge and in his harping whan that he had songe his eyen twinkled in his heed aright as doon the sterres in the frosty night this worthy limitour was cleped huberd
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