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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 134v 15 of 18 folios
That in his hote / declinacioun
Shoon / as the burned gold / witħ stremes brigħ t
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But now in Capricorn / a doun he lygħ t
Where as he shon ful pale / I dar wel seyn
The bittre frostes / witħ the Sleet and reyn
Ianus syt by the fyre / witħ double berd
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And drynketħ of his bugle horn / the wyn
Biforn hī stant Brawn / of the tusked swyn
And nowel crietħ / euer y lusty man
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And preietħ hī / to doon his diligence
To bryngen hī / out of Corrected from: theisehisetheise hise peynes smerte
Or witħ a swerd / that he wold slitte his herte
That nygħ t and day / he spedde hī that he can
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To wayten a tyme / of his conclusioun
This is to seyn / to make illusioun
By swicħ an apparence / or Iogelrie
I ne can no termes / of Astrologie
That she and euer y wygħ t / shulde wene and seye
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That of Brytaigne / the Rokkes were a weye
Or elles they were sonken / vnder grounde
So at the laste / he hatħ his tyme I founde
To make his Iapes / and his wrechednesse
Of swicħ a super sticies / cursednesse
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His tables tolletanes / fortħ he brougħ t
Ful wel corrected / ne there lakked nougħ t
Neither his collect / ne his expans ȝeres
Ne hise rootes / ne hise othere geres
As ben hise centris / and hise argumentez
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And hise pro porcionelles / conuenientez
For hise equaciouns / in euer y thyng
And by his eighte Spere / in his werkyng
He knew ful wel / how fer alnatħ was shoue
Fro the hed / of thilk fixe Aries a boue
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That in the .ix. spere / considered is
Ful subtilly / he kalculed al this
Whan he had founde / his first mansioun
He knewe the remenaunt / by pro porcioun
And knew the a risyng / of his Mone wel
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And in whos face and ter me / and euer ydel