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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
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To mā nes sigħ t / that alle the Rokkes blake
Of Britaygne / were I voided euer ychon
And Shippes by the brynke / come and gon
And in swicħ fourme / endure / a day or two
Thanne were my brother warisshede / of his woo
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Thanne must she nedes holden / hire byheste
Or ellis he shal shame hire / atte the leste
Vn to his brothers bed / he comen is
And swicħ confort / he ȝaf hī for to gon
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To Orliens / that he vp stirte a noon
In hope for to ben lissed / of his care
But if it were / a two forlong
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A ȝonge Clerk romyng
Whicħ that in latyn / thriftily hem grette
I knowe qd he the cause / of ȝoure comyng
And er they ferthere / any foote wente
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He told hem al that was / in here entente
The whicħ that he had knowe / in olde dawes
And he answered hī / that they deede were
For whicħ he wepe ful ofte / many a teere
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And witħ this Magicien / fortħ he is goon
Hom to his hous / and maden hē wel attese
Hem lakked no vitaille / that mygħ t hē plese
So wel arrayed hous / as there was oon
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He shewed hī / er he wente to soupere
Forestes Parkes / ful of wylde dere
There saw he hertes / witħ here hornes heye
The grettest / that euer e was seyn / witħ eye
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He saw of hem / an hundred slayn witħ houndes
And some witħ arwes blede / of bittere woundes
Theise faucons / vp on a fair Ryuere
That witħ here haukes / han the heroun slayn
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Tho saw he knygħ tes / Iustyng
And after this / he dide hī swicħ plesaunce
That he hī shewed / his lady on a daunce
On whicħ / hī self he daunced / as hī thougħ t