Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Summoner's Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer

Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Summoner's Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer

Summary

Geoffrey Chaucer Summoner's Prologue has 44 lines, and 82% of them have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14 in Geoffrey Chaucer. 18% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 3.57 weak matches.

Summoner's Prologue

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14

Summoner's Prologue: 1

This Somnour in his stiropes hye stood;
14

Shipman's Prologue: 1

Our hoste up-on his stiropes stood anon, [continues next]
14

Nun's Priest's Tale: 511

This Chauntecleer stood hye up-on his toos, [continues next]
14

Nun's Priest's Tale: 512

Strecching his nekke, and heeld his eyen cloos, [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 2

Up-on this Frere his herte was so wood,
11

Knight's Tale: 442

With-inne his brest, and hente him by the herte [continues next]
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Knight's Tale: 443

So woodly, that he lyk was to biholde [continues next]
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Shipman's Prologue: 1

[continues previous] Our hoste up-on his stiropes stood anon,
14

Nun's Priest's Tale: 511

[continues previous] This Chauntecleer stood hye up-on his toos,
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Nun's Priest's Tale: 512

[continues previous] Strecching his nekke, and heeld his eyen cloos,
12

Summoner's Prologue: 3

That lyk an aspen leef he quook for yre.
12

Canterbury Tales Prologue: 790

'Lordinges,' quod he, 'now herkneth for the beste; [continues next]
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Knight's Tale: 443

[continues previous] So woodly, that he lyk was to biholde
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Summoner's Prologue: 4

'Lordinges,' quod he, 'but o thing I desyre;
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Canterbury Tales Prologue: 727

But first I pray yow, of your curteisye, [continues next]
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Canterbury Tales Prologue: 790

[continues previous] 'Lordinges,' quod he, 'now herkneth for the beste;
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Canterbury Tales Prologue: 791

[continues previous] But tak it not, I prey yow, in desdeyn;
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Summoner's Tale: 476

'Now, maister,' quod this lord, 'I yow biseke.' [continues next]
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Summoner's Tale: 477

'No maister, sire,' quod he, 'but servitour, [continues next]
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Clerk's Tale: 981

O thing biseke I yow and warne also, [continues next]
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Melibee's Tale: 28

'My lord,' quod she, 'I biseke yow in al humblesse, that ye wol nat wilfully replye agayn my resouns, ne distempre your herte thogh I speke thing that yow displese. For god wot that, as in myn entente, I speke it for your beste, for your honour and for your profite eke. And soothly, I ... [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 5

I yow biseke that, of your curteisye,
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Canterbury Tales Prologue: 727

[continues previous] But first I pray yow, of your curteisye, [continues next]
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Summoner's Tale: 476

[continues previous] 'Now, maister,' quod this lord, 'I yow biseke.'
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Clerk's Tale: 981

[continues previous] O thing biseke I yow and warne also, [continues next]
13

Clerk's Tale: 982

[continues previous] That ye ne prikke with no tormentinge [continues next]
13

Merchant's Tale: 223

And sin that ye han herd al myn entente, [continues next]
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Melibee's Tale: 28

[continues previous] 'My lord,' quod she, 'I biseke yow in al humblesse, that ye wol nat wilfully replye agayn my resouns, ne distempre your herte thogh I speke thing that yow displese. For god wot that, as in myn entente, I speke it for your beste, for your honour and for your profite eke. And soothly, I hope that your benignitee wol taken ... [continues next]
10

Legend of Phyllis: 66

Ye han wel herd of Theseus devyse [continues next]
13

Troilus and Criseyde 3: 111

But sin that ye han herd me som-what seye, [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 6

Sin ye han herd this false Frere lye,
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Canterbury Tales Prologue: 728

[continues previous] That ye narette it nat my vileinye,
10

Clerk's Tale: 568

'Wyf,' quod this markis, 'ye han herd er this,
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Clerk's Tale: 982

[continues previous] That ye ne prikke with no tormentinge
13

Merchant's Tale: 223

[continues previous] And sin that ye han herd al myn entente,
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Pardoner's Tale: 65

I preche, so as ye han herd bifore,
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Pardoner's Tale: 66

And telle an hundred false Iapes more.
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Pardoner's Tale: 508

To sleen the thridde, as ye han herd me seye. [continues next]
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Pardoner's Tale: 509

This yongest, which that wente un-to the toun, [continues next]
10

Melibee's Tale: 28

[continues previous] 'My lord,' quod she, 'I biseke yow in al humblesse, that ye wol nat wilfully replye agayn my resouns, ne distempre your herte thogh I speke thing that yow displese. For god wot that, as in myn entente, I speke it for your beste, for your honour and for your profite eke. And soothly, I hope that your benignitee wol taken it ...
11

Legend of Good Women Prologue A: 106

To seen that flour, as ye han herd devyse. [continues next]
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Legend of Good Women Prologue A: 107

Fair was this medew, as thoughte me overal; [continues next]
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Legend of Phyllis: 65

[continues previous] Therfor I passe shortly in this wyse;
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Legend of Phyllis: 66

[continues previous] Ye han wel herd of Theseus devyse
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Troilus and Criseyde 3: 111

[continues previous] But sin that ye han herd me som-what seye,
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Summoner's Prologue: 7

As suffereth me I may my tale telle!
10

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 193

Now sires, now wol I telle forth my tale.
10

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 194

As ever mote I drinken wyn or ale,
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 413

And ther-fore every man this tale I telle, [continues next]
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 414

Winne who-so may, for al is for to selle. [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 11

For pardee, ye han ofte tyme herd telle, [continues next]
11

Pardoner's Tale: 508

[continues previous] To sleen the thridde, as ye han herd me seye.
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Manciple's Prologue: 13

For he shal telle a tale, by my fey! [continues next]
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Legend of Good Women Prologue A: 106

[continues previous] To seen that flour, as ye han herd devyse.
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Legend of Good Women Prologue A: 107

[continues previous] Fair was this medew, as thoughte me overal;
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Book of the Duchesse: 1034

'But wherfor that I telle my tale? [continues next]
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Book of the Duchesse: 1035

Right on this same, as I have seyd, [continues next]
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Book of the Duchesse: 1238

Of al my tale, so thoghte me.
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Book of the Duchesse: 1239

To telle shortly as hit is,
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Summoner's Prologue: 8

This Frere bosteth that he knoweth helle,
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 413

[continues previous] And ther-fore every man this tale I telle,
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Summoner's Prologue: 12

[continues previous] How that a frere ravisshed was to helle
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Melibee's Tale: 40

... a singuler persone sinneth in takinge vengeance of another man, right so sinneth the Iuge if he do no vengeance of hem that it han deserved. For Senek seith thus: "that maister," he seith, "is good that proveth shrewes." And as Cassidore seith: "A man dredeth to do outrages, whan he woot and knoweth that it displeseth to the Iuges and sovereyns." And another seith: "the Iuge that dredeth to do right, maketh men shrewes." And Seint Paule the apostle seith in his epistle, whan he wryteth un-to the Romayns: that "the Iuges beren nat the spere with-outen cause;" but they beren it to punisse ... [continues next]
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Manciple's Prologue: 12

[continues previous] Do him come forth, he knoweth his penaunce,
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Manciple's Prologue: 13

[continues previous] For he shal telle a tale, by my fey!
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Book of the Duchesse: 1034

[continues previous] 'But wherfor that I telle my tale?
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Book of the Duchesse: 1035

[continues previous] Right on this same, as I have seyd,
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Summoner's Prologue: 9

And god it woot, that it is litel wonder;
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Melibee's Tale: 40

[continues previous] ... singuler persone sinneth in takinge vengeance of another man, right so sinneth the Iuge if he do no vengeance of hem that it han deserved. For Senek seith thus: "that maister," he seith, "is good that proveth shrewes." And as Cassidore seith: "A man dredeth to do outrages, whan he woot and knoweth that it displeseth to the Iuges and sovereyns." And another seith: "the Iuge that dredeth to do right, maketh men shrewes." And Seint Paule the apostle seith in his epistle, whan he wryteth un-to the Romayns: that "the Iuges beren nat the spere with-outen cause;" but they beren it to punisse the ...
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Summoner's Prologue: 11

For pardee, ye han ofte tyme herd telle,
11

Man of Law's Tale: 783

As ye han herd, I can telle it no bettre,
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Summoner's Prologue: 7

As suffereth me I may my tale telle! [continues next]
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Physician's Tale: 229

And tolde hir al the cas, as ye bifore
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Physician's Tale: 230

Han herd; nat nedeth for to telle it more.
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Pardoner's Tale: 65

I preche, so as ye han herd bifore,
11

Pardoner's Tale: 66

And telle an hundred false Iapes more.
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Melibee's Prologue: 37

As thus, thogh that I telle som-what more
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Melibee's Prologue: 38

Of proverbes, than ye han herd bifore,
12

Troilus and Criseyde 1: 920

And some han feyned ofte tyme, and tolde [continues next]
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Troilus and Criseyde 4: 876

'Lo, nece, I trowe ye han herd al how [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 12

How that a frere ravisshed was to helle
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Summoner's Prologue: 8

[continues previous] This Frere bosteth that he knoweth helle,
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Troilus and Criseyde 1: 921

[continues previous] How that they wake, whan they slepen softe;
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Troilus and Criseyde 4: 876

[continues previous] 'Lo, nece, I trowe ye han herd al how
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Summoner's Prologue: 14

And as an angel ladde him up and doun,
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Summoner's Prologue: 22

And un-to Sathanas he ladde him doun. [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 23

"And now hath Sathanas," seith he, "a tayl [continues next]
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Monk's Tale: 567

So likerously, and ladde him up and doun [continues next]
11

Troilus and Criseyde 1: 184

His yonge knightes, ladde hem up and doun
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Troilus and Criseyde 5: 1236

For love of hir that him these peynes wroughte; [continues next]
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Troilus and Criseyde 5: 1237

And up and doun as he the forest soughte, [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 15

To shewen him the peynes that ther were,
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Summoner's Prologue: 22

[continues previous] And un-to Sathanas he ladde him doun.
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Monk's Tale: 567

[continues previous] So likerously, and ladde him up and doun
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Troilus and Criseyde 5: 1236

[continues previous] For love of hir that him these peynes wroughte;
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Summoner's Prologue: 17

Of other folk he saugh y-nowe in wo.
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Man of Law's Tale: 156

Lordes, ladyes, knightes of renoun, [continues next]
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Man of Law's Tale: 157

And other folk y-nowe, this is the ende; [continues next]
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Summoner's Tale: 580

Seyde that Iankin spak, in this matere, [continues next]
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Squire's Tale: 445

Till atte laste she spak in this manere [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 18

Un-to this angel spak the frere tho:
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Man of Law's Tale: 157

[continues previous] And other folk y-nowe, this is the ende;
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 840

'Ye, woltow so, sir Somnour?' quod the Frere, [continues next]
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Summoner's Tale: 579

[continues previous] The lord, the lady, and ech man, save the frere,
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Summoner's Tale: 580

[continues previous] Seyde that Iankin spak, in this matere,
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Squire's Tale: 445

[continues previous] Till atte laste she spak in this manere
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Squire's Tale: 446

[continues previous] Un-to the hauk, as ye shul after here.
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Canon's Yeoman's Tale: 908

'Tel me the rote, good sir,' quod he tho, [continues next]
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Book of the Duchesse: 1126

'Now, goode sir,' quod I [right] tho, [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 19

"Now, sir," quod he, "han freres swich a grace
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Canterbury Tales Prologue: 575

Now is nat that of God a ful fair grace, [continues next]
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Canterbury Tales Prologue: 576

That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace [continues next]
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 840

[continues previous] 'Ye, woltow so, sir Somnour?' quod the Frere,
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 841

[continues previous] 'Now, by my feith, I shal, er that I go,
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Canon's Yeoman's Tale: 908

[continues previous] 'Tel me the rote, good sir,' quod he tho,
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Book of the Duchesse: 1126

[continues previous] 'Now, goode sir,' quod I [right] tho,
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Book of the Duchesse: 1127

[continues previous] Ye han wel told me her-before.
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Summoner's Prologue: 20

That noon of hem shal come to this place?"
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Canterbury Tales Prologue: 576

[continues previous] That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace
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Merchant's Tale: 1027

For lakke of answer, noon of hem shal dyen.
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Summoner's Prologue: 21

"Yis," quod this angel, "many a millioun!"
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Hous of Fame 2: 197

How that yet she shulde here al this,
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Hous of Fame 2: 198

Or they espye hit.' 'O yis, yis!'
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Hous of Fame 2: 199

Quod he to me, 'that can I preve
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Summoner's Prologue: 22

And un-to Sathanas he ladde him doun.
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Summoner's Prologue: 14

And as an angel ladde him up and doun, [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 15

To shewen him the peynes that ther were, [continues next]
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Monk's Tale: 567

So likerously, and ladde him up and doun [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 23

"And now hath Sathanas," seith he, "a tayl
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Summoner's Prologue: 14

[continues previous] And as an angel ladde him up and doun,
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Summoner's Prologue: 25

Hold up thy tayl, thou Sathanas!" quod he,
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Monk's Tale: 567

[continues previous] So likerously, and ladde him up and doun
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Summoner's Prologue: 25

Hold up thy tayl, thou Sathanas!" quod he,
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Summoner's Prologue: 23

"And now hath Sathanas," seith he, "a tayl
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Summoner's Prologue: 35

He clapte his tayl agayn, and lay ful stille. [continues next]
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Merchant's Tale: 815

That flaterest with thyn heed when thou wolt stinge; [continues next]
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Merchant's Tale: 816

Thy tayl is deeth, thurgh thyn enveniminge. [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 26

"Shewe forth thyn ers, and lat the frere see
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Summoner's Prologue: 34

[continues previous] And in his ers they crepten everichon.
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Merchant's Tale: 815

[continues previous] That flaterest with thyn heed when thou wolt stinge;
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Merchant's Tale: 816

[continues previous] Thy tayl is deeth, thurgh thyn enveniminge.
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Summoner's Prologue: 27

Wher is the nest of freres in this place!"
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Knight's Tale: 2123

Whan they were set, and hust was al the place, [continues next]
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Legend of Good Women Prologue A: 232

Ne nat a word was spoken in the place [continues next]
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Legend of Thisbe: 136

Here in this place a furlong-wey or ye! [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 28

And, er that half a furlong-wey of space,
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Knight's Tale: 2124

[continues previous] And Theseus abiden hadde a space
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Knight's Tale: 2125

Er any word cam from his wyse brest,
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Legend of Good Women Prologue A: 233

[continues previous] The mountance of a furlong-wey of space.
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Legend of Good Women Prologue B: 307

The mountance of a furlong-wey of space.
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Legend of Thisbe: 136

[continues previous] Here in this place a furlong-wey or ye!
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Summoner's Prologue: 29

Right so as bees out swarmen from an hyve,
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Nun's Priest's Tale: 572

Out of the hyve cam the swarm of bees; [continues next]
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Troilus and Criseyde 4: 1356

Alday as thikke as been flen from an hyve;
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Summoner's Prologue: 30

Out of the develes ers ther gonne dryve
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Summoner's Prologue: 41

So was the develes ers ay in his minde,
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Nun's Priest's Tale: 572

[continues previous] Out of the hyve cam the swarm of bees;
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Hous of Fame 3: 733

Tho come ther lepinge in a route, [continues next]
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Hous of Fame 3: 734

And gonne choppen al aboute [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 31

Twenty thousand freres in a route,
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Hous of Fame 3: 733

[continues previous] Tho come ther lepinge in a route, [continues next]
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Hous of Fame 3: 1029

Twenty thousand in a route,
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Summoner's Prologue: 32

And thurgh-out helle swarmeden aboute;
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Hous of Fame 3: 734

[continues previous] And gonne choppen al aboute
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Summoner's Prologue: 34

And in his ers they crepten everichon.
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Summoner's Prologue: 26

"Shewe forth thyn ers, and lat the frere see [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 35

He clapte his tayl agayn, and lay ful stille.
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Knight's Tale: 669

For in the bush he sitteth now ful stille. [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 25

[continues previous] Hold up thy tayl, thou Sathanas!" quod he,
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Gamelyn's Tale: 50

They comen ayein to the knight ther he lay ful stille, [continues next]
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Gamelyn's Tale: 51

And tolden him anon-right how they hadden wrought; [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 2 Prose 7: 6

or he wex olde, his vertu, that lay now ful stille, ne should nat
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Legend of Thisbe: 111

And thus she sit, and darketh wonder stille. [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 36

This frere, whan he loked hadde his fille
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Knight's Tale: 669

[continues previous] For in the bush he sitteth now ful stille.
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Knight's Tale: 670

[continues previous] Whan that Arcite had romed al his fille,
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 829

The Frere lough, whan he hadde herd al this, [continues next]
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Gamelyn's Tale: 50

[continues previous] They comen ayein to the knight ther he lay ful stille,
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Legend of Thisbe: 112

[continues previous] Whan that this leonesse hath dronke her fille,
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Summoner's Prologue: 37

Upon the torments of this sory place,
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 829

[continues previous] The Frere lough, whan he hadde herd al this,
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Summoner's Prologue: 39

Un-to his body agayn, and he awook;
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Monk's Tale: 214

For fere of which he quook and syked sore. [continues next]
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Summoner's Prologue: 40

But natheles, for fere yet he quook,
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Monk's Tale: 214

[continues previous] For fere of which he quook and syked sore.
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Legend of Philomela: 90

And quook for fere, pale and pitously,
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Summoner's Prologue: 41

So was the develes ers ay in his minde,
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Summoner's Prologue: 30

Out of the develes ers ther gonne dryve
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Summoner's Prologue: 44

My prologe wol I ende in this manere.'
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Summoner's Tale: 555

And to every spokes ende, in this manere,
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Compleynt of Venus: 70

Sith I have suffisaunce unto my pay.
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Compleynt of Venus: 71

Thus wol I ende this compleynt or lay;