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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 26r 3 of 35 folios
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Of loue / which þ t I rekened / and reken shalle
Be ordre weren peynted / on the walle
And moo than I can make of / mencioū
For sothly / al the Mount of Sytheroū
There venus hath / hire pi ncipal dwellyng
1080
Was shewed on the wal / in portraiyng
With al the gardeyn / and the lustynesse
Nat was for ȝeten / the porter Idelnesse
Ne Narsisus / the faire / of ȝore a gon
Ne ȝet the folie / of kyng Salamon
1085
Ne ȝet the gret strengthe / of Hercules
The enchauntement / of Medea and Circes
Ne of Turnus / wt the hardy fiers corage
The riche Cresus / kaytif in seruage
1090
Beaute ne sleigħ t / strengthe hardynesse
Ne may with venus / maken champar tye
For as hire lust / þ e world þ ā ne may she gye
Loo alle þ eise folk / so caugħ t were in hire laas
Til they for woo / ful often seid allas
1095
And ȝet I koude reken / a / Mƚ / mo
The statute of venus / glorious for to se
Was naked / fletyng in the large see
And fro the nauyl doun / al couered was
1100
With waughes grene / & brigħ t as eny glas
A Citole / in hire rigħ t hand / had she
And on hire hede / ful semely for to se
A Rose garlond / fressħ & wel smellyng
A bouen hire hede / hire dowes flekeryng
1105
Biforñ hire stod / hire sone Cupido
Vp on hise shuldres / wynges had he two
And blynd he was / as it is oft sene
A bowe he bar / and arwes brigħ t & kene
1110
The portrature / þ t was vp on the waƚƚ
W Inne the temple / of mygħ ty Mars the rede
Al peynted was the wal / in lengthe & brede
Lyke to the Estres / of the grisly place
That higħ t the gret temple / of Mars in Trace
1115
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