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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
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Taketħ his first spryngynge / and his Corrected from: courssoursc sours
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That Estward ay / encresitħ in his cours
To Corrected from: EmeleEmelieEmelie ward / To Feraro and venyse
The whicħ a long thyng were / to deuyse
And trewely / as to my Iugement
Me thynketħ it a thyng . / impartinent
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Saue he wole conueyen / his matere
But this is the tale / whicħ þ t ȝe mouñ heere
TH ere is rigħ t at the west side / of Ytaille
Doun at the rote / of vesulus the colde
A lusty pleyn / habundaunt of vytaille
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Where many a Touñ & Tour / þ u mayst byholde
That founded were / in tyme of fadres olde
And many a nother / delitable sygħ t
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And obeissaū t / ay redy to his honde
Were alle hise lieges / bothe lesse and more
Thus in delyt he lyuetħ / and hatħ doon ȝore
Byloued and dred / thurgħ fauour of fortune
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Bothe of his lordes / & of his Comune
The gentillest I borñ / of lumbardye
A fair per sone and strong / and ȝong of age
And ful of honour / and curteysye
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Discret I now / his contree for to gye
Saue in sō me thynges / he was to blame
And Corrected from: Wax lterWalterwax lter / was this ȝong lordes name
In tyme comyng / what mygħ t hī betyde
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But on his lust pre sent / was al his thougħ t
As for to hauke and hunte / on euer y syde
Wel ny / alle othere cures / leet he slide
And eke he nolde / and that was werst of alle
Wedde no wyf / for nougħ t that mygħ t byfalle
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That flokmele on a day / to hi they went
Or elles / that the lord best / wolde assent
That he shulde telle hī / what the peeple ment
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Or elles coude he shewe wel / swicħ mateer
He to the Markys seyde / as ȝe shuln heere