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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 84v 7 of 9 folios
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Now is my Cart / out of the slow parde
Loo brother qd the fend / what told I the
Here may ȝe se / myn owen dere brother
The charl spak oo thyng / but he thouȝt a nother
Late vs go fortħ / a bouten oure vyage
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Heere wynne I no thyng / vp on this cariage
Whan that they comen / som what out of toune
This Sompnour to his brother / gan to roune
Brother qd he / here wonetħ an olde rebekke
That had almost / as lef to lese hire nekke
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As for to ȝeue / a peny of hire good
I wol haue twelue pans / thougħ þ t she be wood
Or I wyl somoune hire / vn to oure office
And ȝet god wot / of hire knowe I no vice
But for þ u canst not / as in this contree
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Wynne thy cost / take here ensaumple of me
This Sompnor clappetħ / at the wydewes gate
Come out qd he / thow old / very trate
I trowe þ u hast / som Frere or prest witħ the
Who clappetħ there / seitħ this wyf / benedicite
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God saue ȝow Sire / what is ȝoure swete wylle
I haue qd he / of somouns here a bille
Vp peyne of cursynge / loke that thow be
To morwe byfore / the Archedekenes kne
To answere vn to the courte / of certeyne thynges
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Now lord qd she / crist iħ u / kyng of kynges
So wysly help me / as I ne may
I haue ben seeke / and that ful many a day
I may nat go qd she / so fer / ne ryde
But I be ded / so pryketħ it in my syde
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May I nat aske / a libel Sire Sompnour
And answere there / be my pro curatour
To swiche thyng / as men wold appose me
Ȝis qd this Sompnour / paye a noon lat se
Twelue pens to me / and I wol the acquyte
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I shal no pro fyt han ther by / but lyte
My Maister hatħ the pro fyt / and nat I
Come of / and late me ryden / hastily
Ȝeue me twelue pans / I may no lengere tarye
Twelue pens qd she / now lady Seynt Marye
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So wysly help me / out of care and synne
This wyde world / thougħ þ t I shuld it wynne
Ne haue I nat twelue pans / with Inne myn holde
Ȝe knowen wel / that I am pore and olde
Kythe ȝoure almesse / on me pore wrecche
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Nay thā ne qd he / the foule fend me fecche