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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 Canon's Yeoman's Tale Folio 204v 4 of 4 folios
Now is it wan / and of a leden hewe
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Who so it vsetħ / sore shal he rewe
And of my swynk / ȝet blered is myn eye
Lo whicħ a vauntage is / to multiplie
That slydyng science / hatħ me mad so bare
That I haue no good / where so euer e I fare
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Of gold / that I haue borwed / trewely
That whil I lyue / I shal it quyte neuere
Lat euer y man / be war by me / for euere
What maner man / þ t castetħ hī ther to
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If he continue / I holde his thrift I do
For so helpe me god / þ er by shal he nat wynne
But empte his purs / & make his wittes thȳ ne
And whan he thurgħ his madnesse / & folye
Hatħ loost his owne good / thurgħ Iupartie
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Thā ne he excitetħ / othere folk ther to
To lese here good / as he hī self hatħ do
For vn to shrewes / ioye it is and ese
To haue here felawes / in peyne & dissese
Thus was I ones lerned / of a Clerk
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Of that / no charge / I wil speke of oure werk
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Oure eluyssħ craft / we semen wonder wyse
Oure t er mes ben so clergeal / and queynte
I blowe the fyr / til that myn hert feynte
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What schulde I telle / eche pro porcioū
Of thynges / whicħ that we / werche vp on
As on fyue / or sexe vnces / may wel be
Of siluer / or sum other quantitee
And bisie me / to telle ȝow the names
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Of Orpement / brent bones / Iren squames
That in to poudre / grounden be ful smal
And in an erthene pot / how put is al
And salt I put In / and also papere
Biforñ theise poudres / þ t I speke of heere
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And meche other thyng / whicħ þ t þ er e was
That of the eyr / mygħ t passe out no thynge
And of the esy fyr / and smert also
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Whicħ þ t was made / & of the care and woo
That we hadde / in oure maters sublymyng