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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 177v 2 of 4 folios
She nys no thyng / of swicħ pacience
As was this Melibeus wyf / Prudence
By goddes bones / whan I bete myne knaues
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She bryngetħ me / the grete clobbed staues
And cryetħ / slee the dogges euer ychon
And breke hē bothe bak / & euer y bon
And if þ t any neygħ ebore of myne
Wol nat in chirche / to my wyf enclyne
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Or be so hardy / to hire to trespace
Whan she cometħ hom / she raumpetħ in my face
And crietħ fals coward / wreke thy wyf
By corpus bones / I wyl haue thy knyf
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Fro day to nygħ t / rigħ t thus she wol bigynne
Allas she seitħ / þ t euer e that I was shape
To wedde a mylk soppe / or a coward ape
That wol ben ouer ladde / witħ euer y wygħ t
Thow darst nat stonde / by thy wyues rigħ t
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This is my lif / but if that I wol figħ t
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Be like a wylde lyoū / fool hardy
I wot wel / she wol do me slee / some day
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Some neigħ ebore / and thā ne go my way
For I am per ilous / witħ knyf in honde
For she is bygge in armes / be my feitħ
That shal he fynde / þ t hire mysdootħ or seitħ
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But late vs passe a wey / fro this matere
My lord the Monk / qd he / be merye of chere
For ȝe shuln telle a tale / trewely
Lo Rouchestre stant heere / fastby
Ride fortħ myn owne lord / breke nat oure game
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But by my trouthe / I knowe nat ȝoure name
Wheiþ er shal I calle ȝow / my lord Daun Ioħ n
Or Daun Thoma s / or elles daun Alboū
Of what hous be ȝe / by ȝoure fader kyn
I vow to god / þ u hast a ful faire skyn
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It is a gentil pasture / there þ u goost
Thow art nat like a penaū t / or a goost
Vp on my feitħ / þ u art som officer
Som worthy Sexteyn / or som Celerer
For by my fadres soule / as to my dome
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