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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 119v 2 of 2 folios
Whicħ that she hatħ / I wys I were to nyce
And tolde to hire / of some of this meyne
Of whom it nedetħ nat / for to declare
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Syn wō men connen oute / sucħ chaffare
To tellen al / wherfore my tale is do
Squyere come ner / if it ȝoure wylle be
And seye som what of loue / for certes ȝe
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Konen ther oon / as meche as any man
Nay sire qd he / but swicħ thyng as I can
Witħ hertly wylle / for I wil nougħ t rebelle
Haue me excused / if I speke amys
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My wyl is good / and lo my tale is this
Incipit fabula Armigeri
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At Sarray / in the lond of Tartarye
There dwelled a kyng / that werred Russye
Thorugħ whicħ there deyed / many a dougħ ty man
This noble kyng was cleped / Cambyuscan
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Whicħ in his tyme / was of so gret renoun
That there was nowher / in no regiou
So excellent a lord / of al thyng
Hī lakked no thyng / that longetħ to a kyng
As of the secte / of whicħ that he was born
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He kept his lay / to whicħ that he was sworñ
And ther to he was hardy / wys and riche
And pitous and Iust / alwey I liche
Sootħ of his word / benygne and honr able
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Ȝong fressħ and strong / in armes desirous
As any bacheler / of al his hous
And kept alwey so wel / Real estat
That there nas no wher / sucħ an other man
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Hadde two Sones / on Elfeta his wyf
Of whicħ the eldest higħ t / Algarsyf
That other Sone / was called Camballo