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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 Miller's Prologue Folio 39v 2 of 2 folios
Late be thyn lewed / dronken harlotrie
It is a synne / and eke a gret folie
To a peyren any man / of his defame
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And eke to brynge wyues / in swicħ name
Thow maist I now / of othere thynges seyn
And seide / leue brother Oswold
Who hath no wyf / he is no Cokewold
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But I seye nat þ er fore / that þ u art on
There ben ful goode wyues / many on
Why art þ u angry / with my tale now
I haue a wyf parde / as wel as thow
Ȝet nolde I / for the Oxen in my plougħ
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Taken vp on me / more than I nougħ
As demen on my self / þ t I were one
I wol byleue wel / þ at I am none
An husbonde / shal nat ben inquesitif¶ Nota bene
In the left margin ¶ Nota bene . Abbreviation for 'nota bene' occurs in the right margin as well. A smal dot in brown ink appears next to the nota in the right margin.Est/ODR
Of goddes preuyte / ne of his wyf
A nota in included in the left margin, as in the former folio.ODR
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So he may fynden / goddes foyson there
Of the remena nt / nedeth nat enquere
He nolde hise wordes / for noman for bere
But told his Cherles tale / in his manere
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Me a thynketh / þ t I shal / reherce it here
And therfore / euer y gentil Corrected from: wrygħ twygħ twr ygħ t I pray
Demeth nat / for goddes loue / that I say
Of euele entent / but for I mot reherce
Here tales alle / al be they bet / or werce
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Or elles falsen / som of my matere
And þ er fore / wo so list it nat / to here
Turne ouer the lef / and chese a noþ er tale
For he shal fynde I nowe / grete & smale
Of storial thyng / that toucheth gentilnesse
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And eke moralite / and holynesse
Blameth nat me / if þ at ȝe chese a mys
The Millere is a charl / ȝe knowe wel this
So was the Reve eke / and othere moo
And harlotrie they tolden / bothe two
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A vyseth ȝow / and put me ouȝt of blame
There is a gap, which could have accommodated at least four lines before the lower ruling line of the frame.The scribe fills it with a long decorated descender from the r in ernest . MI begins at the top of fol. 40rODR