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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 Friar's Prologue Folio 81v 2 of 2 folios
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Telletħ ȝoure tale / and late the Sompnour be
Nay qd the Sompnour / late hī sey to me
What so hī list / whan it cometħ to my lot
By god I shal hī quyten / euer y grot
I shal hī telle / whicħ a gret honour
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It is to be / a flateryng lymytour
And eke / of ful many / a nother crime
Whicħ nedetħ nat / to rehercen at this tyme
And his office / I shal hī telle I wys
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Telletħ fortħ ȝoure tale / myn owen maister dere
Wh ilom there was dwellyng / in my contree
An Archedekene / a man of hey degree
That boldely / dede / execuciou
In punysshyng / of fornicaciou
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Of wychecraft / and eke of baudrye
Of diffamacion / and aduoutrye
Of chirche Reues / and of testamentes
Of Contractes / and of lak of Sacramentes
Of vsurie / and of Symonye also
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But certis lecchours / dide he grettest woo
They shulden synge / if that they were hent
And smale titheres / weren foule I shent
If ony Persone / wold vp on hē pleyne
There mygħ t a stert hī / no pecunyal peyne
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For smale tithes / and for smale offrynge
He mad the peeple / pytously to synge
For er the Busshope / caugħ t hē witħ his hoke
They weren / in the Archedekenes boke
And than had he / thurgħ his Iurisdicciou
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Power / to don on hem correccioū
He had a Sompnour / redy to his hond
A slier boy / was noon in Engelond
For sotilly he had / his espialle
That taugħ t hī wele / where it mygħ t a vaille
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He coude Corrected from: sparesperespa ere / of lecchoures oon or twoo
To techen hī / to foure and twenty moo
For thougħ this Sompnor / wod were as an hare
To telle hise harlotrie / I wyl nat spare
For we ben out / of Corrected from: hisherehis ere correcciou
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They han of vs / no Iurisdicciou