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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 Merchant's Prologue Folio 106r 2 of 2 folios
Wepyng and waylyng / care and other sorwe
I knowe I now / on Euen and on morwe
Quod the Marchaunt / and so don othere moo
That wedded ben / I trowe that it be so
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Ful wel I wot / it faretħ so by me
I haue a wyf / the werste that may be
For thougħ the fend / to hire I coupled were
She wolde hī ouer macche / I dar wel swere
What shulde I ȝow reherce / in special
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Hire heye malice / she is a shrewe witħ al
There is a long / and a large difference
Be twix Grisildis / grete pacience
And of my wyf / the passyng cruelte
Were I vnbounden / also mot I the
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I wolde neuer e eft / comen in the snare
We wedded men / lyue in sorwe and care
That I seye sotħ / be Seynt Thoma s of Inde
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God shilde that it shulde / so byfalle
Theise Monthes two / and more nat parde
And ȝet I trowe / that he that al his lyue
Wyflees hatħ ben / thougħ that men wold hī ryue
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Vn to the hert / ne coude in no manere
Tellen so meche sorwe / as I now here
Coude tellen / of my wyues cursidnes
Now qd oure Host / Marchaunt so god ȝow blis
Syn ȝe so mechil knowen / of that art
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Ful hertily I pray ȝow / telle vs part
Gladly qd he / but of myn owen sore
For sory hert / I telle may nomore
WH il om there was dwellyng / in lumbardie
A worthy knygħ t / that born was of Pauye
In whicħ he leued / in gret prosperite
And Sexty ȝere / a wyfles man was he
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On wommen / there as was his appetit
As don theise fooles / that ben seculere