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" For this ye knowen al so wel as I, Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce as ny as evere he kan Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or... "
Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages - Page 33
by Percy Society - 1847
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The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer - 1899 - 146 pages
...also wel as I, Who-so shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce, as ny as ever he can, Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rndeliche and large ; as Or elles he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe....
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Works

Geoffrey Chaucer - 1899 - 848 pages
...wel as I, 730 Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moote reherce, as ny as ever he kan, Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche or large ; Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe....
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Life in Poetry: Law in Taste: Two Series of Lectures Delivered in Oxford ...

William John Courthope - Aesthetics - 1901 - 474 pages
...his painting. Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce as ny as ever he can Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large. Or elles he moot telle his tale untrewe Or feyne thing, or finde wordes newe....
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A History of English Literature (600-1900)

Eduard Engel - English literature - 1902 - 516 pages
...al-so wel as I, Who-so shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce, as ny as ever he can, Everich a word, if it be in his charge," Al speke he never so rudeliche and large.4 But it is very remarkable that the modest reader is warned to pass over the most...
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Chaucer

William Tuckwell - Poets, English - 1904 - 132 pages
...as wel as I, Who-so shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce, as ny as ever he can, Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudelicke and large ; Or elle's he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thing, or finde wordes newe....
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The World's Best Poetry ...

English poetry - 1904 - 696 pages
...so wel as I, Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moote reherce, as ny as evere he kan Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche 2 or large ; 3 Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, ,Or feyne thyng, or fyndei word^s...
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Canterbury Tales: The Prologue and Squire's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer - 1904 - 226 pages
...wel as I, 733 Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moote reherce, as ny as evere he kan, Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche or large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, 735 Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe....
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Selections from [Chaucer's] Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer - 1905 - 344 pages
...wel as I, 730 Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moote reherce, as ny as evere he kan, Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche or large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, 735 Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe....
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English Essays

Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 422 pages
...al-so wel as I, Who-so shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce, as ny as ever he can, Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large." 49.— 27. Milbourn: see 53, 17. 50. — 9-11. " Hulta renascentur," etc.: Horace,...
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Temple Bar, Volume 38

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 588 pages
...tell you their wordes and their cheer. Whoso shall tell a tale after a man, He must rehearse as nigh as ever he can, Every word, if it be in his charge, All speak he ne'er so rudely and so large ; Or elles he must telle his tale untrue, Or feigne things,...
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