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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 205r 3 of 4 folios
And of quyk siluer / I cleped Mer curie crude
For alle oure sleigħ tes / we can nat conclude
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Oure Orpement / and sublimed Mercurie
Oure grounden litarge eke / on the porfurie
And eche of theise / vnces a certeyne
Nat helpetħ vs / oure labour is in veyne
Ne eke oure spirites / ascensioū
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Ne oure maters / þ t lyn al fix a doun
Moun in oure werkynge / no thing vs a vaille
For loost is al oure labour / & trauaille
And al the cost / a twenty deuel weye
Is loost also / whicħ we vp on it leye
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There is also / ful many a nother thyng
That is vn to oure craft / apper tenyng
Thougħ I be ordre / hem nat reherce can
By cause that I am / a lewed man
Ȝet wole I telle hē / as they come to mynde
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Thougħ I ne can nat / sette hē in here kynde
As Bole Armonyak / verdegres / Boras
And sundry vesselles / mad of erthe & glas
Oure vrinales / and oure descensories
Violes / crosletz / and sublimatories
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Cucurbitz / and alambikes eke
And othere suche / dere I now a leke
Nat nedetħ it / for to reherce hē alle
Watres rubisyng / and Booles galle
Arsenyk / salarmonyak / and Brymstoū
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And Erbes coude I telle eke / many oon
And othere swicħ / if þ t me list tarie
Oure laumpes brenne / bothe nygħ t & day
To brynge a boute oure purpos / if we may
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Oure fourneys eke / of calcinacioū
And of watres / albificacioū
Vnslekked lym / Chalk / and gleir of an ey
Poudres diuer se / asshes / donge / pisse / & cley
Sered pottes / salpetir / vitriole
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And diuer se fyres made / of wode & cole
Sal tartre / Alkaly / and salt per parat
And combust matiers / and coagulat
Cley / mad wt hors & mā nes her / & oyle
Of Tartre / Alumglas / Berm / Wort / and Argule