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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 7v 4 of 9 folios
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A Coke they had / wt hem for þ e nones
A Coke
To boyle the Chikenys / wt the Maribones
And pouder Mer chaunt / tart / and Galyngale
Wel coude he knowe / a draugħ t of londoū ale
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He coude / roste / sethe / boille / and frye
Make Mortrewes / and wel bake a Pye
But gret harm was it / as thouȝt me
That on his shyne / a mormal had he
And blanchemangere / mad he wt the best
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A Shipman there was / þ t woned fer by west ¶ A Shipman
For ought þ t I wot / he was of Dertemouthe
He rod vp on a Rouncy / as wel as he couthe
In a gowne of faldyng / vn to the knee
A daggere hangyng / on a lace had he
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A boute his nekke / vndir his arme a doun
The hote Somer / had mad his hew al broun
And serteynly / he was a good felawe
Ful many a draught / of wyn / had he drawe
Fro Burdeusward / whiles the chapmen slepe
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Of nyce conscience / toke he no kepe
If þ t he faught / and had the heyer hand
Be water he sent it home / fro euer y lond
But to reken wel / of his craft the tydes
The stremes and the strandes hym beside is
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His herberwe / his mone / and his lodes manage
There was non swicħ / from hulle in to cartage
Hardy he was / and wys / I vndertake
W many a tempest / he had his berd shake
He knew alle the hauenes / as they were
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Fro Gutlond / to the Cape de fenistre
And euer y Cryke / fro Bretaigne in to Spayne
His Barge was called / the Magdaleyne
With vs there was / a Doctor of Phisik
A Doctour of Phisyk
In al þ is world / was non hī lik
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To speke of Phesik and of Surgerie
For he was go unded / in Astronomye
He kept his pacience / a ful gret dele
In houres by his / magyk / naturele
Wel coude he fortunen / the accident
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Of hise ymages / for be his pacient
He knew the cause / of euer y maladye