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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 Summoner's Prologue Folio 86r 2 of 2 folios
Vn to his body a ȝein / and he a woke
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But natheles / for feer / ȝet he quoke
So was the deueles ars / ay in his mynde
That is hise Eritage / of verrey kynde
God saue ȝow alle / saue this cursed Frere
My prolog wol I ende / in this manere
Et incipit fabula
Lordynggis there is / in ȝorkshire as I gesse
A mersshy contre / called holdernesse
In whicħ there wente / a lymytour a boute
To per che and eke to begge / it is no doute
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And so byfel / that on a day this frere
Had preched at a chirche / in his manere
And specially / a bouen euer y thynge
Excited he the peeple / in his prechynge
To trentales / and to ȝeuen for goddis sake
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Where witħ men mygħ t / holy houses make
There as diuine seruyse / is honoured
Nat there as it is wasted / and deuoured
Ne there it nedetħ nat / Corrected from: <nothing> forfor to be ȝeue
As to possessioneres / that moun lyue
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Thanked be god / in wele and habundaunce
Trentals qd he / delyueren fro penaunce
Here frendes soules / as wel old as ȝonge
Ȝa / whan that they ben / hastily I songe
Nat for toholden a prest / Ioly and gay
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He syngetħ nat / but oo masse on a day
Delyueretħ out a non qd he / the soules
Ful hard it is / wt flesshoke / or with owles
To ben I clawed / or to brenne or bake
Now spede ȝow hastily / for cristes sake
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And whan this frere / had seid al his entente
Witħ Qui cum patre / fortħ his weye he wente
He went his wey / no lengere wold he rest
Witħ skrippe and tipped staf / I tukked heye
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In euer y hous / he gan to poore and prye
And begged mele and chese / or ellis corñ
His felawe had a staf / typped witħ horñ
And a poyntel / polysshed fetisly
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And wrot the names alwey / as he stode
Of alle folk / that ȝaf hem any good
A scaunce that he / wold / for hem preye
Ȝeue vs a busshel whete / malt or reye