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The Monk's Prologue Folio 177r 1 of 4 folios

Heere is ended Chaucers tale of Melibe ;

ligħtly /

And I preye ȝow / þ^t ȝe wol for bere now / to do venge-
aūce

in swicħ manere / þ^t ȝoure good name / may be kept and
concerued /

And þ^t men moun haue cause & matere / to preise
ȝow of pitee & of mercy /

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and that ȝe haue no cause / to repente
ȝow of thyng þ^t ȝe doon

¶ Nota

¶ For Senek seitħ ; he ouercometħ
in al yuel manere / þ^t repentetħ hī nougħt of his victorie /

Wherfore I preye ȝow / lat mercy be in ȝoure herte /

to the effect
& entente / that god al mygħty haue mercy on ȝow / in his laste
Iuggement /

witħ oute mercy shal be do to hī / þ^t hatħ no mercy
of a nother wygħt

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¶ Whan Melibe had herd / the grete skyles
& resons of Dame P^udence / & hire wyse informacōns and
techynges /

his herte gan enclyne to the wyl of his wyf /
cōsiderynge hire trewe entente /

enforced hī a noon & assented
fully to werken after hire coūseil /

& thanked god / of whom
procedetħ al vertu / & al goodnesse / þ^t hī sente a wyf / of so ~
gret discrecōn

¶ And whan the day cam / þ^t hise aduersaries
shulde appere in his persence /

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he spak vn to hē ful goodly /
& seide in this wyse

¶ Al be it so / þ^t of ȝoure pride and hey
persumpcōn and folye / & of ȝoure neclygence / & vnkunnynge

ȝe haue mys born ȝow / & trespaced vn to me /

ȝet for as mu-
chel / as I se & byholde ȝoure grete humylitee /

& that ȝe ben
sory & repentaūt of ȝoure giltes /

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it constreynetħ me / to do
ȝow grace & mercy /

wherfore I receyue ȝow in to my grace /

& forȝeue ȝow outrely / alle the offences Iniuries and wronges
þ^t ȝe haue doon a geyn me & myne /

to this effect & to this
ende / þ^t god of hise endeles mercy /

wole at the tyme of oure
deyynge / for ȝeue vs oure giltes / þ^t we han trespaced to hī
in this wrecched world /

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for doutelees / if we be sory and re-
pentaūt / of the sȳnes & giltes whicħ we han trespasced
inne / in the sigħte of oure lord god /

he is so free & so mercya-
ble /

þ he wole for ȝeuen vs oure giltes /

and bryngen vs
to the blisse / that neuere hatħ ende ; Amen

& bygȳnetħ the
Prologe of the Monkes tale ;

Whan ended was my tale / of Melibe

And of Prudence / & hire benygnetee

Oure host seide / as I am a feitħful man

And by þ^t precious corpus / Madrian

I had leuere / than a barel ale

That goodleef my wyf / had herd this tale

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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

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