The Canterbury Tales ~ Middle English - 45: The Franklin's Tale

The Franklin's Tale Chapter 45: Lines 525-539 of 896
Middle English


525	And drynketh of his bugle horn the wyn.
526	Biforn hym stant brawen of the tusked swyn,
527	And `Nowel' crieth every lusty man.
528	Aurelius, in al that evere he kan,
529	Dooth to his master chiere and reverence,
530	And preyeth hym to doon his diligence
531	To bryngen hym out of his peynes smerte,
532	Or with a swerd that he wolde slitte his herte.
533	This subtil clerk swich routhe had of this man,
534	That nyght and day he spedde hym that he kan
535	To wayten a tyme of his conclusioun,
536	This is to seye, to maken illusioun
537	By swich an apparence or jogelrye-
538	I ne kan no termes of astrologye-
539	That she and every wight sholde wene and seye