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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 83r 4 of 9 folios
But as my brother / telle me how do ȝe
Now be my trouthe / dere brother seyde he
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As I shal tellen the / a feitħ ful tale
My wages ben ful streyte / and eke ful smale
My lord is hard to me / and daungerous
And myn office / is ful Corrected from: laboriuslaboriouslaborious
And therfore / by extorcioū s I lyue
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For sothe I take / al that men wol me ȝeue
Algate by sleigħ te / or by violence
Fro ȝere to ȝere / I wynne al my dispence
I can no betir tellen / feitħ fully
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I spare nat to take / god it wot
But if it be to heuy / or to hot
What I may gete / in counseil preuyly
No manere conscience / of that haue I
Ner myn extercioū / I mygħ t nat lyuen
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Ne of swicħ Iapes / wol I nat be shreuen
Stomak ne conscience / knowe I noon
I shrewe theise shriftefaderes / euer ychoū
Wel be we mette / by god & by Seynt Iame
But leue brother / telle me thy name
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Quod this Sompnour / rigħ t in this mene while
This ȝeman gan / a litel for to smyle
Brother qd he / wylt þ u that I the telle
I am a fende / my dwellyng is in helle
And here I ryde / a boute my purchasyng
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To wete / where men wold me ȝeue / ony thyng
My purchas is the effect / of al my rent
Loke how thow ridest / for the same entent
To wynne good / thow rekkest neuer e how
Rygħ t so fare I / for ride wold I now
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Vn to the worlddes ende / for a preye
I wende ȝe were / a ȝeman trewely
Ȝe han a mannes shape / as wel as I
Han ȝe thanne a figure / deter minate
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In helle there ȝe ben / in ȝoure estate
Nay certeynly qd he / there han we noone
But whan vs liketħ / we can take vs one
Or ellis make ȝow seme / we ben shape
Somtyme lyke a man / or lyke an Ape
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Or lyke an Aungel / can I ride or go
It is no wonder thyng / thougħ it be so
A lousy Iogelour / can disceyue the
And parde ȝet can I / moore craft than he