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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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Assuretħ vs / and ȝeuetħ vs hardynesse
As ofte / as tyme is / of necessite
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That we to ȝow mow telle / oure heuynesse
Acceptetħ lord / thanne of ȝoure gentilnesse
That if we / wt pytous hert / vn to ȝow pleyne
And lete ȝoure Eeres / nat my voys desdeyne
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More than a nother man / hatħ in this place
Ȝet for as meche / as ȝe / my lord so deere
Han alwey shewed me / fauour and grace
I dar the betre / aske of ȝow a space
Of audience / to shewen oure request
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And ȝe my lord / to don rigħ t as ȝow list
And alle ȝoure werke / and euer e han don / that we
Ne coude nat / oure self / deuysen how
We mygħ ten lyuen / in more felicite
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Saue o thyng lord / if it ȝowre wylle be
That for to be / a wedded man / ȝow list
Than were ȝoure peeple / in souer ayne hertis rest
Of Souereyntee / nougħ t of seruyse
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Whicħ that men clepen / spousaile or wedlak
And thynketħ lord / a mong ȝoure thougħ tes wyse
How that oure dayes / passe in sondry gyse
For thougħ we slepe or wake / or rome or ryde
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In crepetħ age alwey / as stille as ston
In ecħ estate / for there eskapetħ noon
And also certeyn / as we knowen echoū
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That we shuln deye / and vncerteyne we alle
Ben of that day / whan detħ shal on vs falle
That neuer e ȝet / refuseden ȝoure heeste
And we wyln lord / if that ȝe wyln assent
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Chese ȝow a wyf / in short tyme at the leste
Borñ of the gentillest / and of the meste
Of al this lond / so that it ougħ t seme
Honour to god and ȝow / as we can deme
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And take a wyf / for heye goddis sake
For if it so byfel / as god for bede
That thurgħ ȝoure detħ / ȝoure lynage shuld slake
And that a straunge successour / shuld take