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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 General Prologue Folio 13r 9 of 9 folios
Ne studieth nought / ley hand to euer y mañ
A non to drawe / euer y wygħ t bygan
And shortly to telle / as it was
Were it by auenture / or sort / or cas
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The soth is this / the kut fel on the knygħ t
Of which ful glad / was euer y wygħ t
And telle he must his tale / as it was resoū
By forward / and by composicioū
As ȝe han herd / what nedeth wordes mo
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And whan þ is good man / saugh þ t it was so
As he þ at wys was / and obedient
To kepe his forward / by his free assent
And seide / sithe / I shal begynne þ e game
Welcome be the cutte / in goddes name
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Now late vs ride / and herkeneth what I sey
And wt þ at word / we redyn forth oure wey
And he bygan / wt rigħ t a mery chere
This tale a non / and seide on þ is manere
Whilom there was / as olde stories tellen vs
A Duke / a worthy man that higħ t Theseus
Of Athenes / he was lord and gouer nour
And in his tyme / swiche a conquerour
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That grett er e was ther non / vnder the Sonne
Ful many a riche contre / had he wonne
What with his wysdom / and Chyualrie
He conquered al the regne / of femenye
That whilom cleped was / Scithia
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And wedded the fressħ quene / Ypolita
And brouȝt hire hom wt hī / to his contre
W meche glorie / and grete solempnyte
And eke hire ȝonge suster / Emelye
And thus with blisse / and wt victorie
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Lete I this noble Duke / to Athenes ride
And al his Ost / in armes / by his side
And certes if it ne were / to longe to here
I wold haue told fully / the manere
How wō ne was the regne / of Femonye