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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
Lenvoye de Chaucer Folio 105r 1 of 2 folios
Folwe Grisilde / as in humilitee
For it were importable / thougħ they wold
1145
But for that euer y wygħ t / in his degree
Shulde be constaunt / in aduersitee
This storie / whicħ witħ heye stile / he endytetħ
1150
Vn to a mortal man / wel more Corrected from: <nothing>wewe ougħ t
Resceyuen al in gree / that god vs sent
For gret skyl is / he preeue that he wrougħ t
But he ne temptetħ noman / that he bougħ t
1155
He preeuetħ folk al day / it is no drede
Witħ sharpe skorges / and aduersitee
Ful oft to be bete / in sondry wyse
Nat for to knowe / oure wyl / for certis he
1160
Er we were borñ / knew al oure freelete
Lat vs thanne lyue / in vertuous suffraunce
It were ful hard / to fynde now a dayes
1165
In al a Toun / Grisildis thre or twoo
For if þ at they were put / to swicħ assayes
The gold of hem / hatħ now so bad a layes
Witħ bras / that thougħ the coyne be fair at eye
It wolde rather breste a two / than plye
1170
Whos lyf / and al hire secte / god mayntene
In heigħ maistrie / and elles were it skathe
I wol witħ lusty hert / fressħ and grene
Seyn ȝow a song / to glade ȝow I wene
1175
Herkenetħ my song / that seitħ in this manere
GRisilde is ded / and eke hire pacience
And bothe at ones / I beried in Itaylle
For whicħ I crie / in open audience
No wedded man / so hardy be / to assaylle
5
His wyues pacience / in trost to fynde
Grisildis / for in certeyn he shal fayle
Lat noon humilite / ȝoure tonges nayle
Ne late no Clerk / haue cause or diligence