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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 133r 1 of 18 folios
But in his herte / ay was the arwe kene
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And wel ȝe knowe / that of a sursanure
But men mygħ t touche the arwe / or come ther by
His brother weepe / and wailed preuyly
Til at the laste / hī fel in remembraunce
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That whiles he was / at Orleens in fraunce
As ȝonge clerkes / that ben likerous
To reden artes / that ben curious
Seken in euer y halke / and euer y herne
Particulere sciences / for to lerne
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He hī remembred / that vp on a day
At Orliens / in studie / a book he say
Of magyk naturel / whicħ his felawe
That was that tyme / a bacheler of lawe
Al were he there / to lerne a nother craft
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Hadde preuely / vp on his deske I laft
Whicħ book spak muchel / of the oper aciouns
Touchyng
That longetħ to the Mone / and swicħ folie
As in oure dayes / Corrected from: a<nothing> a is nat wortħ a flie
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For holichirche feitħ / in oure byleue
Ne suffretħ noon illusioū / vs to greue
And whan this book / was in his remembraunce
And to hi
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My brother shal be warisshed / hastily
For I am syker / that there be sciences
By whicħ men make / dyuerse apparences
Swicħ as theise subtile tregetoures / pleye
For ofte atte festes / haue I wel herd seye
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That Tregetours / witħ Inne an halle large
Han made come in / a water and a barge
And in the halle / rowen vp and doun
Some tyme hatħ semed come / a grym leoun
And somtyme floures spi nge / as in a Mede
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Somtyme a vyne and grapes / white & reede
Somtyme a Castel / al of lyme and ston
And whan hī lyked / voided it a noon
Thus semed it / to euer y mā nes sigħ t
Now thā ne conclude I thus / that if I mygħ t
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At Orliens / som olde felawe I fynde
That hadde this mones mansiouns / in mynde
Or other magyk / naturel a boue
He shulde wel make my brother / haue his loue
For witħ an apparence / a Clerk may make