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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 Cook's Tale Folio 53r 1 of 2 folios
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Of many a pilgrym / hast thow cristes curs
For of thy per selee / ȝet they fare the wers
That they han eten / in thy stobel goos
For in thy shoppe / is many a flye loos
Now telle on gentil Roger / be thy name
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But ȝet I preye the / be nat wrotħ for game
A man may sey ful sotħ / in game and pleye
But swhicħ pley / quade pley / as the Flemyng seitħ
And þ er fore herry Bailly / be thy feitħ
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Be thow nat wrotħ / er we depar te heere
Thougħ that my tale / be of an hostelere
But natheles / I wol nat telle it ȝet
But er we Corrected from: depar tepar tede per te / I wysse þ u shalt be quyt de par te de is underdotted, but it is also separated with a stroke.ODR
And ther with alle / he lougħ & made chere
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And seide his tale / as ȝe shuln after here
A Prentys whilom / dwelled in oure Citee
Of a craft / of vetayleres was he
And Gaillard was he / as a Goldffyncħ in þ e shawe
Broun as a Bery / a propre short felawe
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W lokkes blake / kembed ful fetisly
Daunce he koude / so wel and iolyly
That he was cleped / Perkyn reuelour
He was as ful of loue / and paramour
As is the hyue / ful of hony swete
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Wel was the wenche / wt hī mygħ t mete
At euer y brydale / wold he synge and hoppe
He loued bet the tauer ne / þ an the shoppe
For whan there ony ridyng was in Chepe
Out of the shoppe / thider wold he lepe
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Til þ at he had / al the sigħ t I seyn
And daunced wele / he nolde nat come ageyn
And gadred hī a meyne / of his sort
To hoppe & synge / and make swicħ disport
And there they setten steuene / for to mete
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To pleye at the Dys / in swicħ a strete
For in the Toun / nas there no Prentys
That fairere coude kast / a peyre of Dys
Than Perkyn coude / and ther to he was free
Of his dispence / in place of preuyte
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That fond his Maister wel / in his chaffare