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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 203r 3 of 5 folios
Whicħ were ful hard / for any þ t is heere
To brynge a boute / but they of hī it lere
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As homly as he ryt / a monges ȝow
If ȝe hī knewe / it wolde be for ȝoure prow
Ȝe wolde nat forgon / his acqueyntaunce
For mechel good / I dar leye in balaunce
Al that I haue / in my possessioū
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He is a man / of heigħ discresioū
I warne ȝow wel / he is a passyng man
Wel quod oure hoost / I preye the telle me than
Nay / he is grettere than a Clerk / I wys
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Seide this ȝeman / and in wordes fewe
Hoost of his craft / som what I wol ȝow shewe
I seye my lord can / suche sotiltee
But al his craft / ȝe moun nat wyte of me
And som what helpe I ȝet / to his werkyng
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That al this go unde / on whicħ we ben ridyng
Til that we come / to Caunterbury Toun
He coude al clene / turnen vp so doun
And paue it al of siluer / and of golde
And whan this ȝeman / had this tale I tolde
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Vn to oure hoost / he seide benedicite
This thyng / is wonder mer ueillous / to me
Syn þ t thy lord / is / of so heigħ prudence
By cause of whicħ / men shulde hī reuerence
That of his worshipe / rekketħ he so lite
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His ouer sloppe / nys nougħ t wortħ a myte
As in effect / to hī / so mot I go
It is al baudy / and tore also
Why is thy lord so sluttissħ / I the preye
And is of power / bettre clotħ to beye
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If that his dede / a corded witħ thy speche
Telle me that / and I the biseche
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God helpe me so / for he shal neuer e the
But I wol nat a vowe / that I seye
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And þ er fore kepe it secree / I ȝow preye
He is to wys in feitħ / as I bileue
That þ at is ouer doon / It wol nat preue ¶ Omne quod est nimium & cetera
A rigħ t / as Clerkes seyn / it is a vice