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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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And they witħ humble entent / ful buxumly
Knelyng vp oon here knees / ful reuerently
Hym thanken alle / and thus they han an ende
Of here entent / and hom a geyn they wende
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Comaundetħ / for the feest to purueye
And to his pryue knygħ tis / and Squyers
Swicħ charge ȝaf / as hī list on hē leye
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And ecħ of hem dootħ / al his diligence
To don vn to the feest / reuerence
Nougħ t fer / fro thilke paleys / honurable
Where as the Markys / shope his mariage
There stod a Thrope / of sygħ t delitable
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In whicħ / that poore folk / of that village
Hadden here beestes / and here herbergage
And of here labour / token here sustenaunce
After that the erthe / ȝaf hē habundaunce
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Whicħ that was holden / poorest of hem alle
But heye god / somtyme senden can
His grace / in to a litel Oxes stalle
Ianycola / men of that Thrope hī calle
A dougħ ter had he / fair I now to sigħ t
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And Grysildes / this ȝonge mayden higħ t
Than was she oon / of the fayrest vnder Sonne
Ful poorely / I fostred vp / was she
No lykerous lust / was in hire hert I ronne
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Wel oftere of the welle / than of the Tonne
She dranke / and for she wolde vertu plese
She knew wel labour / but noon Idel eese
Ȝet in the breest / of hire virgynytee
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There was enclosed / ripe and sad corage
And in gret reuerence / and charitee
Hire olde poore fader / fostred she
A fewe shepe / spynnyng on the feld / she kepte
She wolde nougħ t ben Idel / til she slepte
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Wortes / or other Erbes / tymes ofte
The whicħ she shredde / and setħ for here lyuynge
And mad hire bed ful hard / and no thyng softe
And ay she kepte / hire fadres lyf on lofte
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Witħ euer y obeisaunce / and diligence
That child may don / to fadres reuerence