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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 Cook's Prologue Folio 52v 1 of 2 folios
That doun he gotħ / and cried harrow I dye
Theise Clerkes / bete hym wele / and lete hī lye
And ordeyned hem / and toke here hors a non
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And eke here mele / and on here weye they gon
And at the Mille / ȝet they toke here cake
Of half a busshel flour / ful wel I bake
And hatħ I lost / the gryndyng of the whete
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Of Aleyn and of Ioħ n / þ t beten hī wele
His wyf is swyued / and his dougħ ter als
Lo / swicħ it is / a Millere to be fals
And þ er fore / this pro uerbe / is seid ful sotħ
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Hym thar nat wene wel / that euele dotħ
A gylour / shal hī self / begyled by
And god þ at sitteth heye / in mageste
Saue al this companye / grete and smale
Thus haue I quyt the Millere / in my tale¶ qd the Reve
qd the Reve in the right margin.ODR
TH e Cok of Londoū / while the Reve spak
For ioye hī þ ougħ t / he clawed hī on the bak
A ha qd he / for cristes passioū
This Millere hadde / a sharp conclusioū
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Vp on this argument / of herberwegage
Wel seide Salamon / in his langage
Ne bryng nat euer y man / in to thyn hous
For herberweyng by nygħ t / is per lyous
Wel ougħ t a man / avysed for to be
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Whom that he brougħ t / in to his preuyte
I preye to god / so ȝeue me sorwe and care
If euer e sithe / I higħ t hogge of ware
Herde I a Millere / betir sette a werke
He hadde a iape of malice / in the derke
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But god forbede / that we stynten here
And therfore / if ȝe wouchensaf to here
A tale of me / that am a pore man
I wol ȝow telle / as wel as euer e I can
A litel iape / that fel in oure Citee
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Now telle on Roger / and loke þ t it be good
For many a paste / hast thow laten blod
And many a Iakke of Dover / hast thow sold
That hath ben twyes hot / & twyes cold