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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 Canon's Yeoman's Prologue Folio 202r 1 of 5 folios
The tr mentour / but for no maner chaunce
He mygħ t nat smyte / al hire nekke a two
And for þ er e was that tyme / an ordinaunce
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That noman / shulde do man / swicħ penaunce
The ferthe strok to smyten / softe or soore
This turmentour / ne durste do nomore
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He lefte hire lye / and on his wey is went
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The ci stene folk / whicħ þ t a boute hire were
Witħ shetes / han the blod / ful faire I hent
Three dayes lyued she / in this turment
And neuer e cessed / hem the feitħ to Corrected from: prechetechepreche teche
That she had fostred / hē / she gan to preche
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And hē she ȝaf / hire meebles & hire thyng
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And to the Pope vrban / bytok hem tho
To haue respit / three dayes and no moo
To recomende to ȝow / er that I go
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Theise soules lo / and that I mygħ t do werche
Heere of myn hous / per petuelly a chirche
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The body fette / and buryed it by nygħ te
A mong hise othere Seyntes / honestly
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Hire hous / the Chirche of Seynt Cecile higħ te
Seynt vrban halwed it / as he wel mygħ te
In whicħ / in to this day / in noble wyse
Men don to Crist / and to his seynt seruyse ¶ Amen¶ A men.ODR
Prologe of the Chanouns ȝeman ;
Wh an that told was / the lyf of Seynt Cecile
Er we had riden fully / fyue myle
At Bougħ ton vnder blee / vs gan a take
A man / þ t clothed was / in clothes blake
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His hakeney / whicħ þ t was / al pomely grys
So swat / that it wonder was to se
It semed / as he had pryked myles three
Aboute the peyntrel / stod the fome ful hye
He was of fome / al flekked as a Pye