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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 82v 3 of 9 folios
Rod for to sompne / an old wyf orrible
Feynyng a cause / for he wold hire brydle
And happed that he saw / byforñ hī ryde
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A gay ȝoman / vnder a forest syde
He had vp on / a courteby of Grene
Sire qd this sompnour / heyl and wel a take
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Welcome qd he / and euer y good felawe
Whider ridest þ u / vnder this grene wode shawe
Seide this ȝoman / wylt þ u fer to day
This Sompnour answered / and seide nay
Heere fast by qd he / is myn entent
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To riden / for to reysen vp / a rent
That longetħ to my lordes / duete
A / art thow thanne a bayly / ȝe qd he
He durst nat for verray velanye / and shame
Sey that he was a Sompnor / for the name
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Depardeux qd this ȝoman / dere brother
Thow art a Bailly / and I am a nother
I am vnknowen / as in this contree
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Of thyn acqueyntaunce / I wold preye the
And eke of brotherhede / if that thow list
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I haue gold and siluer / in my chest
If that the happed / to come in to oure shire
Al shal by thyn / rigħ t as thow wolt desire
Graunt mer cy qd this Sompnour / be my feitħ
Euer ycħ in otheres hand / his trouthe leitħ
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For to be sworñ bretheren / til that they deye
In daliaunce they reden fortħ / and pleye
This Sompnour whicħ þ t was / as ful of Iangles
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As ful of venym ben / theise wariangles
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Brother qd he / where is now / ȝoure dwellyng
A nother day / if that I shuld ȝow seche
This ȝeman hī answered / in softe speche
Brother qd he / fer in the Nortħ contree
Where as I hope / somtyme I shal the se
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Er we departe / I shal the so wel wysse
That of myn hous / ne shalt þ u neuer e mysse
Now Brother qd this Sompnour / I ȝow preye
Teche me / whil we riden by the weye
Syn that ȝe ben / a Bailly / as am I
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Som sotiltee / and telle me feitħ fully
In myn office / how that I may most wynne
And sparetħ nat / for conscience or for Synne