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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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Ȝoure h eritage / O woo were vs on lyue
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Wherfore we preye ȝow / hastily to wyue
Made the Markys hert / haue pytee
Ȝe wyln qd he / myn owen peeple deere
To that I neuer e erst thougħ t / streyne me
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I me reioysed / of my liberte
That selde tyme / is founde in mariage
Ther I was free / I must ben in seruage
And troste vp on ȝoure wyt / and haue don ay
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Wherfore / of my free wyl / I wol assent
To wedde me / as sone as euer e I may
But there as ȝe han / pro fred me to day
To chese me a wyf / I ȝow relesse
That choys / and prey ȝow / of that pro fre cese
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Vnlyke / here worthy elders / hem byfore
Bounte cometħ al of god / nat of the streen
Of whicħ / they ben I gendred / and I bore
I troste in goddis bounte / and therfore
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My mariage / and myn estate and reste
I hym bytake / he may do as hī leste
That charge vp on my bak / I wol endure
But I ȝow preye and charge / vp on ȝoure lyf
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That what wyf that I take / ȝe me assure
To worshipe hire / whyle that hire lyf may dure
In word and werk / bothe heere and euer ywhere
As she an Emper oures dougħ ter / were
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For syn I shal for go / my libertee
At ȝoure request / as euer e mot I thryue
There as myn hert is sette / there wol I wyue
And but ȝe wyln assent / in swicħ manere
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I preye ȝow / speketħ nomore / of this matere
To al this thyng / there seide no wygħ t nay
Bysekyng hī of grace / or þ t they wenten
That he wolde graunte hē / a certeyn day
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Of his spousaille / as sone as euer e he may
For ȝet alwey / the peeple sumwhat Corrected from: drededreddedredde
Lest that the Markys / no wyf wold wedde
On whicħ he wolde / be wedded sekerly