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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 Friar's Tale Folio 82r 2 of 9 folios
Ne neuer e shuln / terme of al here lyues
Peter so ben the wō men / of the styues
Quod the Sompnour / I put out of oure cure
Pees wt myschaunce / and witħ mysauenture
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Thus seide oure host / and late hī telle his tale
Now telleth fortħ / and lat the Sompnour gale
Ne sparetħ nougħ t / myn owen maister deere
This fals thef / this Sompnour / qd the frere
Had alwey / Baudes / redy to his hond
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As ony hauke / to lure in Engelond
That told hī al the secree / that they knewe
For hire acqueyntaunce / was nat comen of newe
They weren hise approwoures / preuyly
He tok hī self / a gret profyt ther by
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His maister knew nat alwey / what he wan
Witħ outen maundement / a lewed man
He coude sompne / vp peyne of cristes curs
And they were Inly glad / for to fille his purs
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And rigħ t as Iudas / had purses smale
And was a thef / rigħ t swicħ a thef was he
His maister had but half / his duete
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A thef / and eke a Sompnour / and a baude
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He had eke wenchis / at his retynew
That wheither Sire Robert / or Sire Heugħ e
Or Ioħ n or Raf / or who so that it were
That lay by hem / they told it in his eere
Thus was the wenche / and he of oon assent
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And he wold fecche / a feyned maundement
And sompne hem to chapetle / bothe two
And pille the man / and late the wenche go
Than wold he sey frend / I shal for thy sake
Do strike the out / of oure ƚ res blake
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The thar nomore / as in this cas trauaille
I am thy frend / there I may the auaille
Certeyn he knew / of bryboures moo
Than possible is / to telle in ȝeres twoo
For in this world / nys dogge for the bowe
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That can an hurt Deer / from an hol bet knowe
Than that this Sompnour / knew a sly lechour
Or on aduouter / or a Paramour
And for that was the fruyt / of al his rente
Therfore on it he sette / al his entente
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And so byfel / that ones vp on a day
This sompnour euer e / waytyng on his pray