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Tale Flashcards

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For now the grete charitee…

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…and prayeres of limitours and other holy freres

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Be verray force…

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…he rafte hir maydenhede

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What thyng…

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…is it that wommen most desiren?

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A man shal winne us best…

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…with flaterye; and with attendance, and with bisinesse

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For to be free, and do right…

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…as us lest, and that no man repreve us of our vyce

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Where as he saugh upon a daunce…

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…go, of ladies faire and twenty

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Vanisshed was the daunce…

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…sane on the grene he saugh sittinge a wyf; a fouler wight ther may no man devyse

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Wommen desiren to have sovereynetee…

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…as wel over hir housbande as hir love, and for to been in maistrie him above

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In Al the court be was ther wyf…

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…ne mayde, ne widwe that contraired what he seyde

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Thou mak me take unto…

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…thy wyf; for wel thou wost that I have kept thy lyf

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For Goddes love, as chees a newe…

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…requeste; tak al my good, and lat my body go

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For though that I be foul, and old, and pove…

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…I nolde for al the metal, ne for ore, that under erthe is grave, or lym above, but if thy wyf I were, and eek thy love

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That any of my nacioun…

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…sholde ever so foule disparaged be!

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And al day after hidde…

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…him as an oule, so wo was him, his wyf looked so foul

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Whan he was with his wyf…

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…a-bedde y-broght; he walweth, and he turneth to and fro

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His olde wyf lay…

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…smylinge evermo

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Fareth every knight…

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…thus with his wyf as ye?

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18
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Thou art so loothly…

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…and so old also

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19
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And ther to comen…

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…of so lowe a kinde

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But for ye speken of swich gentillesse…

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…as is descended out of old richesse, that therefore sholde not ye be gentil man, swich arrogance is nat worth an hen

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Loke who that is most vertuous alway…

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…privee and apert, and most entendeth ay to do the gentil dedes that he kan, and tak him for the grettest gentil man

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Crist wol we clayme…

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…of him our gentillesse, nat of our eldres for hir old richesse

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For though they yeve us al hir heritage…

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…for which we clayme to been of heigh parage, yet may they nat biquethe, for no thyng to noon of us hir vertuous living

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Dantes tale: ful selde up riseth by his branches smale prowesse…

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…of a man, for God, of his goodnesse wol that of hym we clayme our gentillesse

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If gentillesse were planted naturelly…

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…unto a certeyn lineage, down the lyne, privee and apert, than wolde they never fyne to doon of gentillesse the fain offyce; they might do no villeyne or vice

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Genterye is nat…

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…annexed to possessioun

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And nil him-selven do no gentil dedes…

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…he is nat gentil. For he was boren of gentillesse

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For vileyns sinful dedes…

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…make a cherl

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Thy gentillesse cometh fro God allone; than comth…

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…our verray gentillesse of grace, it was no-thing biquethe us with our place

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Thanne am I gentil whan that…

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…I beginne to liven vertuously and weyve sinne

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And ther as ye of povert…

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…me repreve

32
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In wilful povert chees…

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…to live hys lyf

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Glad povert is…

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…an honest thyng

34
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Who so that halt him…

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…paid of his poverte, I holde him riche, al hadde he nat a sherte

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He that coveiteth…

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…is a povre wight

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Al was this…

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…land fulfild of fayerye

37
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But he that noght hath…

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…ne coveyteth have, is riche, al though he holde him but a knave

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Poverte is…

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…hateful good

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al though it seme elenge: posessioun, that…

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…ne wight wol challenge

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Maketh his God…

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…and eek him-self to knowe

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Of elde…

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…ye repreve ME

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Now there ye seye…

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…that I am foul and old

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For filthe and elde, also moot I thee…

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…been grete wardeyns upon chastitee

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To han me foul and old til that I seye and to be…

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…to yow trewe humble wyf, and never yow displese in al my lyf

45
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Or elles ye wol Han me yong…

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…and fair and take your aventure of the repair

46
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I put me in your wys governance…

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…cheseth yourself, which may be most plesance, and most honour to yow and me also

47
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That she so fair…

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…was and so young ther-to

48
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His herte bathed…

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…in a bathe of blisse

49
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In parfit…

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…joye

50
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Eek I preye Jesu shorte…

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…hir lyves that wol nat be governed by hir wyves

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And olde and angry nigardes of dispence…

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…God sende hem soone verray pestilence!

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