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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 104v 26 of 27 folios
Hatħ don ȝow kepe / and in that same stounde
Al sodeynly / she fel a doun to grounde
1100
Hire children two / whan she gan hē embrace
That witħ gret sleigħ t / and gret difficulte
The children / from hire arm / they gonne race
O many a teere / many a pytous pace
1105
Doun ran of hem / that stoden hire beside
Vnethe a boute hire / mygħ t they a byde
She rysetħ vp / a basshed / from hire traunce
And euer y wygħ t / hire ioye / and feste maketħ
1110
Til she hatħ caugħ t / a geyn / hire countenaunce
Walter hire dotħ / so feithful plesaunce
That it was deynte / for to se the chere
Bytwen hē two / syn they ben met in fere
1115
Han taken hire / and in to chaumbre gon
And stripen hire / out of hire rude aray
And in a clotħ of gold / that brigħ t shoñ
Witħ a Corone / of many a riche ston
Vp on hire hede / they in to halle hire brougħ t
1120
And there she was honoured / as hire ougħ t
For euer y man & wō man / dotħ his mygħ t
This day / in myrthe and reuel / to spende
Til on the walkene / shon the sterres ligħ t
1125
For more solempne / in euer y mā nes sigħ t
This feste was / and grettere of costage
Than was the reuel / of hire mariage
Lyuen theise two / in concord and in reest
1130
Vn to a lord / oon of the worthiest
Of al Itayle / and thanne in pees and rest
His wyues fader / in his court he kepetħ
Til that the soule / out of his body crepetħ
1135
In reste and pees / after his faderes day
And fortunat was eke / in mariage
Al put he nat his wyf / in gret assay
This world is nat so strong / it is no nay
1140
As it hatħ ben / in olde tymes ȝore