Now have I told you shortly in a clause Th’ estate, th’ array, the number, and eke the cause Why that assembled was this company In Southwark at this gentle hostelry, That hightë the Tabard, fast by the Bell. 250 But now is timë to you for to tell How that we baren us that ilkë night, 251 When we were in that hostelry alight. And after will I tell of our voyáge, And all the remnant of our pilgrimage.