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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
Epilogue to the Merchant's Tale Folio 119r 1 of 2 folios
Ȝa Sire qd she / ȝe moun seyn as ȝow lest
But Sire / a man / that waketħ out of his slepe
He may nat so sodeynly / take kepe
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Vp oon a thyng / ne seyn it so par fitly
Til that he be a waked / verrayly
Rigħ t so a man / þ t longe hatħ blynd I be
Ne may nougħ t sodeynly / so wel se
First / whan his sigħ t is newe comyn a geyn
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As he that hatħ a day / or tweyne seyn
Til that ȝoure sigħ t be satled a while
There may ful many a sigħ t / ȝow begyle
Betħ war I preye ȝow / for by heuene kyng
Ful many a man wenetħ / to seyn a thyng
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And it is al a nother / than it semetħ
He that mys conceyuetħ / mys demetħ
This Ianuarie / who is glad but he
He kissitħ hire / and clippetħ hire ful ofte
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And oon hire wombe / he streked hire ful softe
Now goode men / I preye ȝow alle betħ gladde
Thus endetħ heere my tale / of Ianuarie
God blisse vs alle / and oure lady Seynt Marie ¶ Amen;
In the right margin: ¶ A men ;ODR
Et incipit pro logus Armigeri
Armigeri : Perhaps written later as the word is much bigger than the rest of the line.ODR
Ey goddis mer cy / seide oure hoost tho
Now swicħ a wyf / I preye god kepe me fro
Lo swicħ sleigħ tes / and subtilitees
In wō men ben / for ay as besiens bees
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Ben they / vs sely men for to deceyue
And froo a sotħ / euere wyl they weyue
By this Marchaū tes tale / it preuetħ wel
But doutelees / as trewe as any stel
I haue a wyf / thougħ that she pore be
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But of hire tonge / a labbyng shrewe is she
And ȝet she hatħ an hepe / of vices moo
Ther of no fors / lat alle suche thynges goo
But wyte ȝe what / in counseile be it seyde
Me rewetħ sore / I am vn to hire teyde
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For and I shuld rekene / euery vyce