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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 Franklin's Tale Folio 132r 3 of 18 folios
He seetħ he may nat / froo his deetħ a sterte
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Hym semed that he felt / his hert colde
Vp to the heuene / hise hondes he gan holde
And on hise knees bare / he sette hī doun
For werray woo / out of his wyt he breide
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He nyste what he spak / but thus he seide
Witħ pitous herte / his pleynt hatħ he bygonne
Vn to the goddes / and first vn to the Sonne
Of euer y plaunte / herbe / Tree and flour
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That ȝeuest after / thy declynaciou
To eche of hem / his tyme and his sesoun
As thyn herberwe chaungetħ / lowe or heigħ e
Lord Phebus / cast thy mer cyable eye
On wrecched Aurelie / whicħ that am but lorñ
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Witħ outen gilt / but thyn benygnetee
Vp on my dedly hert / haue som pitee
For wel I woot / lord Phebus / if ȝow list
Ȝe moun me helpen / saue my lady best
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Now vouche saf / that I may ȝow deuyse
How that I may be holpen / and in what wyse
lucyna : ".i. luna" interlinear gloss.ODR
That of the See / is chief goddes and quene
Thougħ Neptunë / haue deitee in the See
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Ȝet emperesse a bouen hī / is she
Ȝe knowen wel lord / that rigħ t as hire desire
Is to be quyked and ligħ ted / of ȝoure fyre
For whicħ she folwetħ ȝow / ful besily
Rigħ t to the See / desiretħ naturely
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To folwen hire / as she that is goddesse
Bothe in the See / and Ryuers more and lesse
Wherfore lord Phebus / this is my requeste
That now next / at this appossiciouñ
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Whicħ in the signe shal be / of the leoun
As preietħ hire / so gret a flood to brynge
That fyue fadme at the leste / it ouer spi nge
The heieste Rokke / in armoryk Brytayne
And late this flode / endure ȝeres tweyne
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Thanne certes to my lady / may I seye
Haldetħ ȝoure heste / the Rokkes ben a weye