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A knight ther was, and that a worthy man,That fro the tyme that he first biganTo ryden out, he loved chivalrye,Trouthe and honour, fredom, and curteisye.Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre,And therto hadde he riden, no man ferre,As wel in Cristendom as hethenesse,And ever honoured for his worthinesse.At Alisaundre he was, whan it was wonne;Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bigonneAboven alle naciouns in Pruce.In Lettow hadde he reysed and in Ruce,No Cristen man so ofte of his degree.In Gernade at the sege eek hadde he beOf Algezir, and riden in Belmarye.At Lyeys was he, and at Satalye,Whan they were wonne; and in the Grete SeeAt many a noble aryve hadde he be.At mortal batailles hadde he been fiftene,And foughten for our feith at TramisseneIn listes thryes, and ay slayn his foo.This ilke worthy knight had been alsoSomtyme with the lord of Palatye,Ageyn another hethen in Turkye:And evermore he hadde a sovereyn prys.And though that he were worthy, he was wys,And of his port as meke as is a mayde.He never yet no vileinye ne saydeIn al his lyf, unto no maner wight.He was a verray parfit gentil knight.

"This is the poynt, to speken short and pleyn,That ech of yow, to shorte with oure weye,In this viage shal telle tales tweyeTo Caunterbury-ward, I mene it so,And homward he shal tellen othere two,Of aventures that whilom han bifalle.And which of yow that bereth hym best of alle,That is to seyn, that telleth in this caasTales of best sentence and moost solaas,Shal have a soper at oure aller costHeere in this place, sittynge by this post,Whan that we come agayn fro caunterbury.And for to make yow the moore mury,I wol myselven goodly with yow ryde,Right at myn owene cost, and be youre gyde,And whoso wole my juggement withseyeShal paye al that we spenden by the weye.And if ye vouche sauf that it be so,Tel me anon, withouten wordes mo,And I wol erly shape me therfore."This thyng was graunted, and oure othes sworeWith ful glad herte, and preyden hym alsoThat he wolde vouche sauf for to do so,And that he wolde been oure governour,And oure tales juge and reportour,And sette a soper at a certeyn pris,And we wol reuled been at his devysIn heigh and lough; and thus by oon assentWe been acorded to his juggement.

But first I pray yow, of youre curteisye,That ye n' arette it nat my vileynye,Thogh that I pleynly speke in this mateere,To telle yow hir wordes and hir cheere,Ne thogh I speke hir wordes proprely.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 kanEverich 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 fynde wordes newe.He may nat spare, althogh he were his brother;He moot as wel seye o word as another.Crist spak hymself ful brode in hooly writ,And wel ye woot no vileynye is it.Eek plato seith, whoso that kan hym rede,The wordes moote be cosyn to the dede.Also I prey yow to foryeve it me,Al have I nat set folk in hir degreeHeere in this tale, as that they sholde stonde.My wit is short, ye may wel understonde.

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