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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 134r 16 of 18 folios
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Saw it was tyme / he clapt hise handes two
While they saugħ / al this sigħ t merueillous
But in his studie / there as hise bookes bee
500
They seten stille / but no wygħ t / but they three
To hī this maister called / his squyere
And seide hī thus / is redy oure soupere
Sithe I ȝow bad / oure souper for to make
505
Whan that theise worthy men / wenten witħ me
In to my studie / there as my bookes be
Go we thanne Soupe / qd he / for the beste
510
Theise amerous folk / somtyme mot han here reste
What sō me / shulde this maistres / gerdoun be
To remeeuen alle the Rokkes / of Brytaigne
And eke from gerounde / to the moutħ of Sayne
515
He mad it straunge / and swor so god hī saue
Lasse than a thouȝsand pound / he wolde nat haue
Ne gladly for that somme / he wolde nat gon
520
This wide world / whicħ that men seye is round
This bargeyn is ful dreue / for we ben knyt
Ȝe shal be paid trewely / by my trouthe
But loketħ now / for no necligence / or slouthe
525
Ȝe tarie vs heere / no lengere than to morwe
Nay qd this Clerk / haue heere my feitħ to borwe
To bedde is gon Aurelius / whan hī leste
What for his labour / and his hope of blisse
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His wooful herte / of penaunce had a lisse
To Britaigne toke they / the rigħ t way
Aurelius / and this Magicien byside
And ben descended / there they wolde a byde
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The colde frosty Sesoun / of Decembre