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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 Knight's Tale Folio 20v 2 of 35 folios
Hys martirdom / by god it am nat I
Therfore I passe / as lightly as I may
It fel / that in the / vij / ȝere / in May
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The thridde nygħ t / as olde bokes seyn
That al this storie / tellen more pleyn
Were it by auentr e / or destyne
As whan a þ ing is shapen / it shal be ¶ verum est
That sone after the mydnygħ t / Palamoū
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By helpyng of a frende / brake his prisoū
And fleeth the Citee / as fast as he may go
For he had ȝeue / his Iayler drynke so
Of Clarry / mad of a certeyn wyne
W Nerkotikes and opye / of Thebes fyne ¶ Operum Thebaicum
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That al þ t nygħ t / þ ougħ þ t men wold hī shake
There is a cross in dry point in the left margin.ODR
The Iayler slep so / he mygħ t nouȝt wake
The nygħ t was short / and fast by the day
That nedes cost / he must hī seluen hyde
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And to a groue / fast there besyde
W dredful fote / than walketh Palamoū
For shortly / this was his oppinyoū
That in þ at groue / he wold hī hyde al day
And in the nygħ t / þ an wold he take his wey
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To Thebes ward / his frendes for to pray
On Theseus to helpen hī / to werrey
And shortly / eiþ er he wold lese hise lyf
Or wynnen Emelye / vn to his wyf
This is þ e effect / and his entent pleyn
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That litel wyst / how ny þ t was his care
Til þ t fortune / had brougħ t hī in þ e snare
The besy larke / the messanger of day
Saleweth in hir song / the morwe gray
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And verray Phebus / riseth vp so brygħ t
This line is inserted with a lighter shade of ink which suggests that there was a gap in the text and the scribe filled it in later.ODR
That al þ e orient / laugheth of þ e ligħ t
And wt hise stremes / drieth in the greues
The siluer dropes / hangyng on the leues
And Arcite þ at is / in the court rial
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With Theseus / the squyer principal
Ys rysen and loketh / on the mery day
And for to doū / his obseruaū ce to May
Remembryng on þ e poynt / of his desyre