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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 92v 2 of 27 folios
Sire Clerk of Oxenford / oure host sayde
Ȝe ride as stille and coy / as dootħ a mayde
Were newe spoused / syttynge at the bord
This day ne herd I / of ȝoure tonge a word
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I trowe ȝe studye / a bouten som Sophyme
But Salamon seitħ / þ at euer y thyng hatħ tyme
For goddis sake / as betħ of betre cheere
It is no tyme / for to studyen heere
Telle vs som mery tale / be ȝoure feye
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For what man / that is entred / in a pleye
He nedes must / vn to the pley assent
But preechetħ nat / as freres don in lent
To make vs / for oure olde synnes wepe
Ne that thy tale / make vs nat to slepe
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Telle vs sum Corrected from: <nothing>merimeri thyng / of auentures
Ȝoure termes / ȝoure coloures / and figures
Kepe hem in stoor / til so be / Corrected from: <nothing>þ tþ t ȝe endite
Heye stile / as whan þ t men / to kynges wryte
Spekitħ so pleyn / at this tyme / . we ȝow preye
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That we moun vnderstonde / what that ȝe seye
Host qd he / I am vnder ȝoure ȝerde
Ȝe han of vs / as now / the gouer naunce
And therfore wold I do ȝow / obeisaunce
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As fer as resoū axetħ / hardily
I wold ȝow telle a tale / whicħ that I
Lerned at Padowe / of a worthy Clerk
He is now deed / and nayled in his cheste
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I preye to god / so ȝeue his soule reste
Fraunceys Petrak / the laureat poete
Hygħ t this Clerk / whos Retoryk swete
Enlumyned al Itaille / of Poetrye
As lynyan dide / of Philosophye
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Or lawe / or other art particuler
But detħ that wol nat / suffren vs / dwellen heer
But as it were / a twynkelynge of an eye
Hem bothe hatħ slayn / and alle shuln we deye
But fortħ to tellen / of this worthy man
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That taugħ t me this tale / as I began
I seye / that first / he witħ Corrected from: hisheyehis eye stile enditetħ
Or he the Corrected from: xxx dety / of his tale wrytetħ
A pro bleme / in the whiche / descryuetħ he
Pomond and of Saluces / the contree
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That ben the boundes / of westlumbardye
And of Mount vesulus / in speciale
Where as the Poo / out of a welle smalle