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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 6r 1 of 9 folios
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So plesant was his / In Principio
Principio : Probably beginning with a capital because P has a small vertical line across the loop.ODR
Ȝet wold he haue / a ferthyng or he went
His po chas was wel betir / than his rent
And rage he coude / as it had be a whelp
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In louedayes / there coude he meche help
For there he was / nat lyke a cloisterere
W a thredbare Cope / as is a pore scolere
But he was like a maister / or a Pope
Of double worstede / was his semy Cope
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Rounde / as any belle / ouȝt of the presse
Som what he lisped / for his wantounesse
To make his englyssħ / swete on his tonge
And in his harpyng / whan that he songe
Hys eyen twynkeled / in his hede a rigħ t
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As don the sterres / in a frosty nygħ t
This worthy lymytor / was cleped Huber
A Marcha unt þ ere was / wt a forked berd
A Marchaunt
In motlee / and heye on hors he satte
And on his heued / a flaundryssħ beu
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His botes clasped / faire and fetisly
His resons he spak / ful solempnely
Sownyng alwey / the encres of his wynnyng
He wold þ e see were kepte / for any thyng
By twene midelburgħ and Orewelle
midelburgħ : m is not a capital letter.ODR
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Wel coude he / in eschaunges sheldes selle
This worthy man / ful wel / his wyt bysette
There wyst no wyght / that he was in dette
So stedefastly dede he / of his gouer nance
W his bargeyns / and wt his cheuysance
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For sothe he was / a worthy man wt alle
But sothe to seyn / I ne wot how men hī calle
A Clerk ther was / of Oxenfor¶ A Clerk
That vnto logyk
And lene was his hors / as it were a rake
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And he was nouȝt right fat / I vndertake
But loked holwe / and ther to soberly
Ful thredbare was his ouer est Courteby
For he had ȝet / geten hī no benefice
Ne was nouȝt wordly / to haue an Office
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For hī was leuer / haue / at his beddis hede