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1. The General Prologue
2. The Knight's Tale
3. The Miller's Prologue
4. The Miller's Tale
5. The Reeve's Prologue
6. The Reeve's Tale
7. The Cook's Prologue
8. The Cook's Tale
9. Introduction to the Man of Law's Tale
10. The Man of Law's Tale
11. The Wife of Bath's Prologue
12. The Wife of Bath's Tale
13. The Friar's Prologue
14. The Friar's Tale
15. The Summoner's Prologue
16. The Summoner's Tale
17. The Clerk's Tale
18. Lenvoye de Chaucer
19. Words of the Host
20. The Merchant's Prologue
21. The Merchant's Tale
22. Epilogue to the Merchant's Tale
23. The Squire's Tale
24. The Franklin's Tale
25. The Physician's Tale
26. Introduction to the Pardoner's Tale
27. The Pardoner's Prologue & Tale
28. The Shipman's Tale
29. The Prioress' Tale
30. The Tale of Sir Thopas
31. Here the Host 'stynteth' Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas
32. The Tale of Melibeus
33. The Monk's Prologue
34. The Monk's Tale
35. The Nun's Priest's Prologue
36. The Nun's Priest's Tale
37. Epilogue to the Nun's Priest's Tale
38. The Second Nun's Tale
39. The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue
40. The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
The Clerk's Tale Folio 104r 25 of 27 folios
Be now nomore a g ast / ne euele apayd
I haue thy feitħ / and thyn benygnytee
As wel as euer e womman / was assayed
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In gret a stat / and poorely arrayed
Now knowe I deere wyf / thy stedfastnesse
And hire in armes toke / and gan hire kysse
She herde nat / what thyng he to hire seyde
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She ferd as she had stirt / out of a slepe
Tyl she / out of hire Masednesse / a breyde
Grisilde qd he / by god that for vs deyde
Thow art my wyf / noon other I haue
Ne neuer e had / as god my soule saue
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To be my wyf / that other feitħ fully
Shal be myn Eyr / as I haue ay disposed
Thow bar hī / in thy body trewely
At Boloigne / haue I kept hī preuyly
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Take hē a geyn / for now maist þ u nat sey
That thow hast lorñ / noone of þ ine children twey
I warne hē wele / that I haue don this dede
For no malice / ne for no cruelte
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But for to assaye / in the / thy wommanhede
And nat to slen myne children / Corrected from: I<nothing>I god forbede
But for to kepen hē / preuyly and stille
Til I thy purpos knew / and al thy wylle
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For pytous ioye / and aftir hire swownyng
She / bothe hire ȝonge children / vn to hire calletħ
And in hire armes / pytously wepyng
Embracede hem / and tenderly kyssyng
Ful lyke a Moder / witħ hire salte teres
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She bathed bothe here visage / and here heres
Hire swownyng / and hire humble voys to heere
Graunt mer cy lord / god thanke it ȝow qd she
That ȝe han saued me / myne children dere
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Now rekke I neuer e / to be ded rigħ t heere
Sithe I stonde / in ȝoure loue / and in ȝoure grace
No force of detħ / ne whan my spirit pace
Ȝoure wooful Moder / wend stedfastly
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That cruel houndes / or som foule venyme
Had eten ȝow / but god of his mer cy