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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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For he was Epior s / owen s one
That held opynyoū / that pleyn delit
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Was verray / felicite parfyt
An housholdere / and þ t a gret was he
The grettest / of al his contre
His brede his ale / was alwey after one
A betir wyned man / was nowher none
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W oute bake mete / was neuer e his hous
Of fyssħ and flescħ / and þ t so plentenous
It sewed in his hous / of mete and drynke
Of alle deyntes / þ t eny man coude thynke
After the sondry sesons / of the ȝere
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So chaunged he his mete / & his sopere
Ful many a fat par tricħ had he in mue
And many a breme / & many a luce in stue
Wo was his coke / but if his sauce were
Poynant and sharpe / and redy al his gere
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His table durmau / in his haƚƚ alwey
Stod redy couer ed / al the long day
At the sessiones / there was he lord and sire
Ful often tyme / he was knygħ t of the shire
And an Anlaas / and a Gipciere al of silk
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Heng at his girdil / as whyt as morwe mylk
A sherewe had he be / and a Countor
Was nowher swich / a worthy vauasor
An haberdassher / and a Carpenter ¶ An Haberdassher
A Carpenter
A Webbere
A Digħ e
A Tapicer
A Carpenter
A Webbere
A Dig
A Tapicer
A Webbere a digħ e / and a tapicer
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And they were clothed / alle in oo lyuer e
Of a solempne / and gret frater nite
Ful fressħ and newe / her gere pyked was
Here knywes were nouȝt / chaped wt bras
But al wt siluer / wrouȝt ful clene and wele
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Here Girdeles / and here pouches / euer ydele
Wel semed ich of hem / a fair Burgeys
To sitte in the ȝildehalle / vp on þ e heye deys
Euer ycħ for the wysdom / that he can
Was shaply to be / an Alderman
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For catel hadden they I nougħ / and rent
And eke here wyues / wold it wel assent
And ellis serteyn / they weren to blame
It is ful feyr / to be cleped Madame