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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 53v 2 of 2 folios
For oft tyme he fond / his box ful bare
For sothly / a Prentys a Reuelour
That hauntetħ Dys / riot / & Paramour
His maister shal it / in his shoppe a bye
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Al haue he no part / of the Mynstralsye
For theft and riot / they ben conuertible
Al can he pleye / on gyterne or ribible
Reuel and trouthe / as in a lowe degre
They ben ful wrothe / al day / as men may se
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Til he was ny / out of his Prentyshode
Al were he snybbed / bothe erly and late
And somtyme lad / wt reuel to Newgate
But at the last / his Maister hī bythougħ t
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Vp on a day / whan he his paper sougħ t
Of a prouerbe / that seith this same word
Wel bet is roten Appel / out of hord
Than that he rote / al the remenaunt
So faretħ it / by a riotous seruaunt
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It is ful lasse harm / to late hī passe
Than he shende alle / the serua utes in the place
Therfore his Maister / ȝaf hī acquietance
And bad hī go / wt sorwe / & witħ meschaunce
And thus this ioly Prentys / had his leue
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Now late hī riote / al the nygħ t / or leue
That helpetħ hī / to wasten and to souke
Of that he bribe can / or borwe may
A non he sent his bed / and his array
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Vn to a Compere / of his owen sorte
That loued Dys / ryot and desporte
And had a wyf / þ at held for countenaunce
A Shoppe / and swyued for hire sustenaunce