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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 203v 4 of 5 folios
Werfore in that / I holde hī lewed and nice
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For whan a man hatħ / ouer gret a wit
Ful ofte hī happetħ / to mys vsen it
So dotħ my lord / and that me greuetħ sore
God it amende / I can sey nomore
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Syn of the conynge / of thy lord þ u woost
Telle how he dotħ / I preye the hertly
Syn that he is / so crafty / and so sly
Where dwelle ȝe / if it to telle be
In the Subarbes of a Toun / quod he
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Lurkynge in hernes / and in lanes blynde
Where as theise robbours / & theise theues by kynde
Holden here pryue / ferful residence
As they that durn nat shewen / here per sence
So faren we / if I shal seye the sothe
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Ȝet quod oure hoost / lat me talke to the
Why artow so discoloured / of thy face
Peter quod he / god ȝeue it harde grace
I am so vsed / in the fir to blowe
That it hatħ chaunged / my colour I trowe
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I nam nat wont / in no myrour to prye
But swynke sore / and lerne multiplie
We blundren euere / and pouren in the fyre
And for al that / we faille of oure desire
For euere we lakke / oure conclusioū
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To mechel folk / we don illusioū
And borwe gold / be it a pound or two
Or ten or twelue / and manye sō mes moo
And maken hem wenen / atte leest weye
That of a pound / we coude make tweye
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Ȝet is it fals / and ay we han good hope
It for to doon / and after it we grope
But that science / is so fer vs biforñ
We moun nat / al thougħ we hadden sworñ
It ouer take / it slit a wey so faste
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It wol us make beggers / atte laste
Whil this ȝeman was thus / in this talkyng
This Chanoun drow hī nere / & herd al thyng
Whicħ this ȝeman spak / for suspecioū
Of mē nes speche / euer e hadde this Chanoū
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For Catoū seitħ / that he that gilty is