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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 204r 5 of 5 folios
That was the cause / he gan so ney he drawe
To his ȝeman / to herken al his sawe
And thus he seide / vn to his ȝeman thoo
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Holde þ u thy pees / & speke no wordes moo
For if þ u do / thow shalt it dere a bye
Thow sclaundrest me heere / in this companye
And eke discouerest / þ t þ u shuldest hide
Ȝa quod oure hoost / telle on what so betide
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Of al his thretenynge / rekke nat a myte
In feitħ quod he / nomore I do but lyte
And whan this Chanoū saw / it wolde nat be
But his ȝeman / wolde telle his pryuete
He fledde a wey / for verrey sorwe & shame
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A quod the ȝeman / heere shal rise a game
Syn he is gon / the foule fend hī quelle
For neuere heere after / wyl I wt hī mete
For peny ne for pound / I ȝow byhete
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He þ t me brougħ t first / vn to that game
Er that he dye / sorwe haue he & shame
For it is ernest to me / be my feitħ ¶ deficit versus
And ȝet for al my smert / & al my grief
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For al my sorwe / labour & meschief
I coude neuere leue it / in no wyse
Now wolde god my wyt / mygħ t suffise
To tellen al / þ t longetħ to that art
And nathelees / ȝow wil I tellen part
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Syn þ t my lord is gon / I wyl nat spare
Swicħ thyng as that I knowe / I wil declare
and bygynnetħ his tale of Multiplicacion ;
Witħ this Chanoū / I dwelt haue seuene ȝere
And of his science / am I neuere the nere
Al that I had / I haue lost ther by
And god wot / so han many moo than I
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There I was wont / to be rigħ t fressħ and gay
Of clothynge / and of othere good array
Now may I were / an hose / vp on myn hed
And where my colour was / bothe fressħ & red