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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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Engendred / of humor / malicolyk
Byforn his owen / Celle fantasyk
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And shortly tr ned / was al vp so doun
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Bothe habit / and eke disposicioū
Of hym / this wooful louyer Arcite
What shuld I al day / of hys woo endite
Whan he endured had / a ȝere or two
Thys cruel tr ment / & this peyne & woo
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At Thebes in his contre / as I seyde
Vp on a nygħ t in slepe / as he hī leyde
Hī þ ouȝt how þ t / the wynged god M er curie
Byforn hī stod / & bad hī to be merie
His slepy yerde / in honde he bar vp rigħ t
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An hatte he wered / vp on his heris brigħ t
Arrayed was þ is god / as I tok kepe
As he was / whan Argus / toke his slepe
And seide hī thus / to Athenes shalt þ u wende
There is the shapen / of thy woo an ende
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Now trewely / how sore þ at me smert
Quod he / to Athenes / rigħ t now wyl I fare
Ne for the drede of deth / I wyl nat spare
To se my lady / whom þ at I loue and serue
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In hire per sence / I rekke nouȝt / thougħ I sterue
And wt þ at word / he caugħ t a gret Myrour
And saw / þ t chaunged was / al his colour
And saw his visage / al in an oþ er kynde
And rigħ t a non / it ran hī in his mynde
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That sithe his face / was so disfigured
Of maladye / that he had endured
He mygħ t wele ȝeue / that he bare hym lowe
Lyue in Athenes / euer emore vnknowe
And sen his lady / wel ny day by day
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And rigħ t a non / he chaunged his array
And clad hī / as a pore laborere
And al a lone / saue oonly a Squyere
That knew his preuyte / and al his cas
Whicħ was disgysed / porely as he was
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To a Athenes is he gon / the next wey
And to the court / he com on a dey
And at the gate / he profred his seruyse