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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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To drugge and drawe / what men wold deuyse
And shortly of this matere / for to seyn
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He fel in office / with a Chaumberleyn
The whicħ þ at dwellyng was / with Emelye
For he was wys / and coude sone espie
Of euer y ser uaū t / whicħ þ at serueth hire
Wel coude he hewe / wode / and water bere
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For he was ȝong & mygħ ty / for þ e nones
And ther to he was long / and bygge of bones
To don þ at ony wygħ t / can hī deuyse
A ȝere or two / he was in this seruyse
Page of the chaumbre / of Emelye the brygħ t
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And Philostrate he seide / that he higħ t
But half so wel byloued a man / as he
Ne was þ ere neuer e in courte / of his degre
He was so gentil / of condicioū
That þ orugħ ouȝt al the court / was his renoū
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They seiden þ at it were / a charite
That Theseus wold / enhaunce his degre
And putten hī / in worshipful seruyse
There as he mygħ t / his ver tue exercise
And thus wt Inne a while / his name is spronge
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Bothe of his dedes / and his goode tonge
That Theseus hath taken hī / so nere
That of his chaumbre / he mad hī a squyere
And ȝaf hī gold / to meyntene his degree
And eke men brouȝt hī / ouȝt of his contre
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From ȝere to ȝere / ful preuyly his rent
But honestly & slily / he it spent
That no man wondrede / how þ t he it hadde
And thre ȝere in this wyse / his lyf he ladde
And bar hī so in pees / and eke in werre
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There was noman / þ t Theseus hath derre
And speke I wyl of Palamon / a lyte
In derknesse and orrible / and strong prisoū
This seuene ȝer / hath seten Palamoū
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For pyned / what for woo / and for distresse
Who feleth double soor / and heuynesse
But Palamoū / þ at loue distreyneth so
That wod ouȝt of his wytte / he goth for woo
And eke ther to / he is a prisonere
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Perpetuelly / nougħ t oonly for a ȝere