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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 Nun's Priest's Tale Folio 195r 1 of 2 folios
The fox answered / in feitħ it shal be doon
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And as he spak þ t word / al sodeynly
The Cok brak from his moutħ / delyuerly
And hye vp on a tree / he flaw a noon
And whan the fox saw / þ t the Cok was gon
Allas qd he / o chaunteclere allas
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I haue to ȝow qd he / I don trespas
In as meche / as I maked ȝow afferd
Whan I ȝow hente / & brougħ t in to this ȝerd
But sithe I dede it / in no wykke entente
Come doun / & I shal telle ȝow what I mente
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I shal sey sotħ to ȝow / god helpe me so
Nay / thā ne qd he / I shrewe vs bothe two
And first I shrewe my self / bothe blode & bones
If þ u begile me / oftere than ones
Thow shalt nomore / thurgħ thy flaterie
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For he þ t wynketħ / whan he shulde see
Al wilfully / god lat ħ ī neuer e thee
Nay qd the fox / but god ȝeue ħ ī meschaunce
That is so vndiscret / of gouer naunce
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That iangletħ / whan he shulde holde his pees
Lo whicħ it is / for to be rechelees
But ȝe þ t holden this tale / of folie
As of a fox / or of a Cok / or hen
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Taketħ the moralitee / goode men
For Seynt Poule seitħ / þ t al þ at wryten is
To oure docti ne / it is I wryte I wys
Taketħ the fruyt / & lat the chaf be stille
Now goode god / if þ t it be thy wylle
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As seitħ my lord / so make vs alle goode men ¶ kantuariensis
An brynge vs to his blisse/
Amen.ODR
I blissed be thy brethe / & euer y ston
This was a murie tale / of Chauntecleer
But by my trouthe / if þ u were seculer
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Thow woldest ben a tredfoul / a rigħ t
For if þ u haue corage / as þ u hast mygħ t
The were nede of hennes / as I wene
Ȝa / moo than seuene tymes / seuentene