Ac of curatours of cristen peple, As clerkes bereth witnesse, I shal tellen it, for truthes sake, Take hede who so liketh.
With either alteration, the line remains formless: better, he hauen herd tellen .
Chaucer speaks of-- “Jestours thattellen tales Both of seeping and of game.
Now to the temple of Dian the chaste As shortly as I can I will me haste, To tellenyou all the description: Depainted be the walles up and down Of hunting and of shamefast chastity.
And I shall tellen thee in wordes few What we shall do, and bring it well about.
Somme serven the kyng, And his silver tellen In cheker and in chauncelrie, Chalangen hise dettes Of wardes and of wardemotes, Weyves and streyves.
And gestiours,[44] that tellen tales Bothe of weping and of game, Of al that longeth unto Fame.
What sholde I tellen of the royaltee At mariage, or which cours gooth biforn Who bloweth in a trompe or in an horn?
And thus found I sitting this goddesse In noble honour and richesse Of which I stinte a while now Other thing to tellen you.
And Pursevauntes and Heraudes That crien riche folkes laudes, It weren, all and every man Of hem, as I youtellen can, Had on him throwe a vesture Which men clepe a coate armure.
But, er I might with any worde out-breke, Or tellen any of my peynes smerte, I fond hir deed, and buried in an herte.
Who can the pitous Ioye tellenal Betwix hem three, sin they ben thus y-mette?
So greet a nombre never seen ther was; 1330 What maner of foules, tellen I woll, If god woll give me of his grace.
In alle thing which is of god begonne Ther foloweth grace, if it be wel governed; Thus tellen they whiche olde bokes conne, Wherof, my lord, I wot wel thou art lerned.
His spirit changed hous, and wentè ther, As I came never I cannot tellen wher.
What helpeth it to tarien forth the day, To tellen how she wep both even and morwe?
To Alison now wol I tellenal My love-longing, for yet I shal nat misse That at the leste wey I shal hir kisse.
Eek in that lond, as tellen knightes olde, Ther is som mete that is ful deyntee holde, 70 That in this lond men recche of it but smal; Ther nis no man that may reporten al.
Wel may men knowe that so gret ordinance 250 May no man tellen in a litel clause As was arrayed for so heigh a cause.
But natheles yow wol I tellen part; Sin that my lord is gon, I wol nat spare; Swich thing as that I knowe, I wol declare.
Now wolde god my wit mighte suffyse 715 To tellen al that longeth to that art!
His spirit chaunged hous, and wente ther, As I cam never, I can nat tellen wher.
Now wolden som men seye, paraventure, That, for my necligence, I do no cure To tellen yow the Ioye and al tharray 1075 That at the feste was that ilke day.
Of which if I shal tellen al tharray, Than wolde it occupye a someres day; And eek it nedeth nat for to devyse 65 At every cours the ordre of hir servyse.
I wol me hye To tellen thyn unwit and thy folye, 1085 And eek the falsnesse of that other wrecche, As ferforth as that my conning may strecche.
But truely to tellen at the last, He was in church a noble ecclesiast.
To tellen you their wordes and their cheer; Not though I speak their wordes properly.
But forth to tellenof this worthy man, That taughte me this tale, as I began.
Bot forto tellen of the care That thei of Tyr begonne tho, Whan that thei wiste he was ago, It is a Pite forto hiere.
And forto se the sothe in dede, Behold the bible and thou myht rede Of grete ensamples manyon, Wherof that I wol tellen on.
In presence of the remenant The strengthe of al the covenant Tho was reherced openly, And to Florent sche bad forthi That he schaltellen his avis, As he that woot what is the pris.
Mi Sone, of that thou woldest so, I am noght wroth, bot over this I wol thee tellen hou it is.
Bot what sche dede in that matiere It is a wonder thing to hiere, Bot yit for the novellerie I thenke tellen a partie.
Was nevere wiht that sih ne wiste A man that more joie made, Wherof thei weren alle glade Whiche herde tellen of this chance.
My goode Sone, at thi preiere 630 Of suche ensamples as I finde, So as thei comen nou to mynde Upon this point, of time gon I thenke forto tellen on.
God helpe me so, I can not tellen whider We mighten goon, if I shal soothly seyn, Ther any wight is of us more fayn Than Sarpedoun; and if we hennes hye Thus sodeinly, I holde it vilanye.
Ne of his wo ne dorste he not biginne To tellen it, for al this world to winne.
For goddes speken in amphibologyes, And, for o sooth they tellen twenty lyes.
This wordes and ful manye an-other to 540 He spak, and called ever in his compleynte Hir name, for to tellen hir his wo, Til neigh that he in salte teres dreynte.
The day and night her to tourment, With cruel death they her present, And tellen her erliche and late, That Deth standith armid at her gate.
Or else he mote tellen his tale untrue, Or feine things, or find words new: He may not spare, altho he were his brother, He mote as well say o word as another.
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