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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 202v 2 of 5 folios
The hakeneye eke / þ at his ȝeman rod vp oon
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So swatte / that vnethe mygħ t it gon
A male tweyfold / vp on his croper lay
It semed that he caried / litel array
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And in myn herte / to wondre I began
What that he was / til that I vnderstode
How þ t his cloke / was sowed to his hode
For whicħ / whan I had longe a vysed me
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I demed hī som Chanoū / for to be
His hat heng at his bak / doun by a lace
For he had ryden more / than trot or pace
He had ay / priked / lyke as he were wood
A clote leef he hadde / vnder his hood
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For swete / and for to kepe / his hed from hete
But it was ioye / for to sen hī swete
His forhe dropped / as a stillatorie
Were ful of plaunteyn / and of per itorie
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God saue quod he / this ioly compaignye
Fast haue I pryked qd he / for ȝoure sake
By cause / that I wolde / ȝow a take
To ryden in the same / myrie compaignye
His ȝeman was eke / ful of curteisie
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And seide sirx x now in the morwe tyde
Out of ȝoure hostelrie / I saw ȝow ride
And warned heere my lord / & my souer ayn
Whicħ that to riden witħ ȝow / is ful fayn
For his disport / he louetħ daliaunce
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Thā ne seide oure hoost / for certeyn it wolde seme
Thy lord were wys / and so I may wel deme
He is ful iocunde / also dar I leye
Can he ougħ t telle / a mery tale or tweye
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Witħ whicħ he glade may / this compaignye
Who sire my lord / ȝa ȝa witħ outen lye
He can of myrthe / and eke of iolytee
Nat but I now / also sire trustetħ me
And ȝe hī knew / as wel as do I
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Ȝe wolde wondre / how wel and craftily
He coude werke / and that in sondry wyse