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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 205v 2 of 4 folios
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Rysalger / and oure matiers embityng
And eke of oure matiers / encorporyng
And of cementynge / and fermentacioū
Oure Ingottes / testes / & manye moo
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I wil ȝow telle / as was me taugħ t also
The foure spiritez / & the bodies seuene
By ordre / as ofte I herd my lord nemene
The first spirit / quyk siluer called is
The Secund Orpement / the thridde I wys
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Sal Armonyak / and the ferthe Bremstoū
The bodyes seuene eke / lo hem heere a noon
Sol / gold is / and Luna siluer we threpe
Mars Iren / Mercurie quyksiluer we clepe
Saturnus led / and Iuppiter is Tyn
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And venus Coper / by my fader kyn
This cursed craft / who so wil excersise
He shal no good haue / þ t hī may suffise
For al the good / he spendetħ there a boute
He lese shal / ther of haue I no d oute
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Who so þ at listetħ / outren / his folie
Lat hī come fortħ / and lerne multiplie
And euer y man / þ t hatħ ougħ t in his cofre
Lat hī appiere / and wexe a Philosophre
Ascauns that craft / is so ligħ t to lere
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Nay nay god wot / al be he Monke or frere
Preest or Chanoū / or any other wygħ t
Thougħ he sitte at his book / bothe day & nygħ t
In lernynge / of this eluyssħ / nyce lore
Al is in veyn / and perde mechel more
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To lerne a lewed man / this subtilitee
Fy / spek nat ther of / for it wil nat be
And cone he letterure / or cone he noon
As in effect he shal fynde it al oon
For bothe xx o / by my sauacioū
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Concluden / in multiplicacioū
I like wel / whan they han al I do
This is to seyn / they faillen bothe two
Ȝet forgat I / to makee rehersail
Of watres Corosif / and of lymail
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And of bodies / mollificacioū
And also / of here induracioū