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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 132v 2 of 18 folios
Preye hire she go / no fastere cours than ȝe
I seye / preietħ ȝoure Suster that she goo
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No fastere cours than ȝe / theise ȝeres twoo
Thanne shal she ben euene / at the fulle alwey
And spryng flood lastynge / bothe nygħ t and day
And but she vouche saf / in swicħ manere
To graunte me / my souereigne lady deere
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Preye hire to synken / euer y Rokke a doun
In to hire owen derk / regioū
Vnder the ground / there Pluto dwelletħ Inne
Or neuer e moo shal I / my lady wynne
Thy temple in delphos / wol I barfot seke
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Lord Phebus / se the teeres on my cheke
And of my peyne / haue som compassioū
And longe tyme he lay fortħ / in a traunce
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Vp caugħ te hī / and to bedde he hatħ hī brougħ t
Late I this wooful creature / lye
Chese he for me / wheiþ er he wol lyue or dye
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As he that was / of Chyualrie the flour
Is comen hom / and othere worthy men
O bliful artow now / thow Dorigen
That hast thy lusty housbonde / in thyne armes
The fresshe knygħ t / the worthy man of armes
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That louetħ the / as his owne hertes lyf
No thyng list hī / to ben Ymagintyf
If any wygħ t had spoke / whil he was oute
To hire of loue / he ne hadde of it / no doute
He nougħ t entendetħ / to no swicħ matere
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But dauncetħ Iustetħ / maketħ hire good chere
And thus in ioye and blisse / I late hem dwelle
And of the seke Aurelius / wol I telle
Two ȝere and more / lay wrecched Aurelius
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Er any foot / he mygħ t on erthe goon
Ne comfort in this tyme / had he noon
Saue of his brother / whicħ that was a clerk
He knew of al this woo / and al this werk
For to noon other creature / certeyn
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Of this matere / he durst no word seyn
Vnder his brest / he bare it more Secree
Than euer e dide Pamphilus / for Galathee
His brest was hole / witħ oute for to sene