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Thread #122382   Message #3460373
Posted By: Jim Dixon
02-Jan-13 - 11:09 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: White Pater Noster
Subject: RE: Folklore: White Pater Noster
From The Miller's Tale by Chaucer, line 3480ff:

Ther-with the nyghtspel seyde he anonrightes,
On foure halves of the hous aboute,
And on the thresshfold of the dore with-oute:
"Jhesu Crist and Seint Benedight,
Blesse this hous from every wikked wight
For nyghtes verye—the white Pater noster.
Where wentestow, Seint Petres soster?"