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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
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Whan þ t he had mad / our rekenynges
And seide / lo lordyngges trewely
Ȝe ben to me / rigħ t welcome hertily
For be my treuth / if that I shal nat lye
I sey nat þ is ȝere / so merie a companye
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At ones / in this herberwe / as is nowe
Fayn wold I do ȝow myrthe / & I wist howe
And of a mirthe / I am ryght now be þ ouȝt
To don ȝow ease / and it shal cost nouȝt
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That blisful martir / quyte ȝow ȝoure mede
And wel I wot / as ȝe gon by the weye
Ȝe shapen ȝow to talken / and to pleye
For trewely / comfort ne mirthe is non
To ride by the weye / as dom as it were a ston
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And þ er fore wyl I / maken ȝow disport
As I seide erst / and do ȝow som comfort
And if ȝow like / alle be one assent
To stonden / at my Iuggement
And for to werken / as I shal ȝow sey
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To morwe / whan ȝe riden by the wey
Now be my faders soule / þ at is dede
But ȝe be merie / I wyl ȝeue ȝow myn hede
Holde vp ȝoure hondes / wt oute more speche
Oure conseil was nouȝt / longe for to seche
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Vs þ ouȝt it was nat worthy / to make it nyce
And ga unted hī / wt oute more a vyse
And bad hī sey / his verdyt as hī lest
But take it nougħ t / I prey ȝow in disdeyn
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This is þ e poynt / to speke it short & pleyn
That eche of ȝow / to short with ȝoure weye
In this viage / shal telle tales tweye
To Caunterburyward / I mene it so
And homward / he shal telle othere two
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Of auentures / that whilom / han byfalle
And which of ȝow / bereth hī best of alle
That is to seyn / that telleth in þ is cas
Tales / of most sentence and solas
Shal haue a soper / at oure alder cost