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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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The fend / that ȝow wol make / thral & bonde
He may nat tempten ȝow / ouer ȝoure mygħ t
For crist wol be ȝoure chaumpioū / & ȝoure knygħ t
And preyetħ that theise Sompnours / hem repent
Of here mysdedis / or that the fend hem hent
Et incipit pro logus Sū monitoris
TH is Sompnor / in hise stiropes heye stode
Vp on this frere / his hert was so wode
That like an Aspen lef / he quok for ire
Lordynggis qd he / but o thyng I desire
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I ȝow byseche / that of ȝoure curteisye
Syn ȝe han herd / this fals frere lye
As suffretħ me / I may my tale telle
This frere bostetħ / that he knowetħ helle
And god it woot / that is but litel wonder
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Freres and fendes / ben but lite a sonder
For per de / ȝe han ofte tyme herd telle
How that a frere / rauysshed was to helle
In Spirit oones / by a vysiou
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To shewen hī / the peynes that there were
In al that place / saw he nat a frere
Of othere folk / he saw I nowe in woo
Vn to this Aungel / spak this frere thoo
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That noone of hē / shal comen in this place
Ȝis qd this Aungel / many a myliouñ
And vn to Sathanas / he led hī doun
And now hatħ Sathanas / seitħ he / a tayle
Braddere than of a Caryk / is the Sayle
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Hold vp thy tayl / thow Sathanas qd he
Shewe fortħ thyn Ars / and late the frere se
Where is the nest / of freres in this place
And er that half a furlong weye / of space
Rigħ t so as Bees / out swarmen of an hyue
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Out of Deueles Ars / they gonne dryue
Twenty thousand freres / on a route
And thurgħ out helle / they swarmed al a boute
And comen a geyn / as fast as they mouñ goū
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He clapte his tayl a geyn / & lay ful stille
This frere / whan he loked had / his fille
Vp on the turmentes / of this sory place