Beware of it, ere thou too nigh approach, For I shall tell examples more than ten: Whoso will not beware by other men, By him shall other men corrected be: These samë wordës writeth Ptolemý; Read in his Almagest, and take it there.” “Dame, I would pray you, if your will it were,” Saidë this Pardoner, “as ye began, Tell forth your tale, and sparë for no man, And teach us youngë men of your practique.” “Gladly,” quoth she, “since that it may you like. But that I pray to all this company, If that I speak after my fantasy, To takë nought agrief 1809 what I may say; For mine intent is only for to play.⁠—