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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 we comen a geyn / fro Caunterbury
And for to make ȝow / the more mery
I wyl my self goodly / with yow ryde
Rigħ t at myn owen cost / and be ȝoure guyde
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And who so wyl / my Iuggement with sey
Shal paie al that we spende / by the wey
And if ȝe wouchesaue / þ at it be so
Telle me a non / wt oute wordes mo
And I wyl erly / shape me therfore
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This þ ingg was ga unted / and oure othes swore
With ful glad hert / and prayed hī also
That he wold vouchesaue / so to do
And that he wolde be / oure gouer nour
And of oure tales / Iugge / and reportour
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And sette a soper / at a certein prise
And we wyl reuled be / at his deuyse
In heygh & lowe / and thus by one assent
We be acorded / to his Iuggement
And ther vp on / the wyn was fet a noñ
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We dronkyn & to rest / wenten ichoñ
With outen eny lengere / tariyng
Vp ros oure Ost / and was oure aller Cok
And gadered vs to gedir / on a flok
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And forth we redyn / a litel pas
Vn to the water yng / of Seynt Thomas
And there oure Ost / bygan his hors arest
And seide lordes / herkeneth if ȝow list
Ȝe wete oure forward / if ȝe it record
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If euesong / and morwesong accord
Late se now / who shal telle þ e first tale
As euer e mote I drynke / wyn or ale
Who so be rebel / to my Iuggement
Shal paie for al þ t is / by the weye I spent
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Now draweth cutte / er we ferthere twynne
For he þ t hath the shortest / shal begynne
Now draweth Cutte / for this is myn accord
Cometh nere quod he / my lady Prioresse
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And ȝe sire clerk / late be ȝoure shamefastnesse