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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 Monk's Prologue Folio 177r 1 of 4 folios
Heere is ended Chaucers tale of Melibe ;
And I preye ȝow / þ t ȝe wol for bere now / to do venge-
aū ce
a
in swicħ manere / þ t ȝoure good name / may be kept and
concerued /
concerued /
And þ t men moun haue cause & matere / to preise
ȝow of pitee& of mer cy /
ȝow of pitee
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and that ȝe haue no cause / to repente
ȝow of thyng þ t ȝe doon ¶ Nota
ȝow of thyng
in al yuel manere /
Wherfore I preye ȝow / lat mer cy be in ȝoure herte /
to the effect
& entente / that god al mygħ ty haue mer cy on ȝow / in his laste
I uggement /
witħ oute mer cy shal be do to hī / þ t hatħ no mer cy
of a nother wygħ t
of a nother wyg
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techynges /
his herte gan enclyne to the wyl of his wyf /
cō siderynge hire trewe entente /
c
enforced hī a noon & assented
fully to werken after hire coū seil /
fully to werken after hire co
gret discrec
shulde appere in his p
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he spak vn to hē ful goodly /
& seide in this wyse
p
ȝe haue mys born ȝow / & trespaced vn to me /
ȝet for as mu-
chel / as I se& byholde ȝoure grete humylitee /
chel / as I se
sory
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it constreynetħ me / to do
ȝow grace& mer cy /
ȝow grace
wherfore I receyue ȝow in to my grace /
to this effect & to this
ende /þ t god of hise endeles mer cy /
ende /
wole at the tyme of oure
deyynge / for ȝeue vs oure giltes /þ t we han trespaced to hī
in this wrecched world /
deyynge / for ȝeue vs oure giltes /
in this wrecched world /
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for doutelees / if we be sory and re-
pentaū t / of the sȳ nes & giltes whicħ we han trespasced
inne / in the sigħ te of oure lord god /
penta
inne / in the sig
he is so free & so mer cya-
ble /
ble /
and bryngen vs
to the blisse / that neuere hatħ ende ; Amen
to the blisse / that neuere hat
Prologe of the Monkes tale ;
Wh an ended was my tale / of Melibe
And of Prudence / & hire benygnetee
Oure host seide / as I am a feitħ ful man
And by þ t precious corpus / Madrian
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I had leuere / than a barel ale
That goodleef my wyf / had herd this tale