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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 Miller's Tale Folio 40r 1 of 15 folios
The incipit is placed in the header.ODR
Wh ilom th ere was dwellyng / in Oxenford
A riche gnof / that gestes held to bord
And of his craft / he was a Carpentere
W hī þ er e was dwellyng / a poore scolere
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Had lerned art / but al his fantasye
Was turned / for to lerne / Astrologye
And koude a serteyn / of conclusions
To demen / by interrogacions
If þ t men asked hī / in certeyn houres
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What þ t men shuld haue / drought or eƚƚ shoures
Or if men asked hī / what shulde by falle
Of euer y thyng / I may nat rekken hem alle
Of derne loue he coude / and of solas
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And ther to he was sly / and ful preue
And like a Maide / meke for to se
A Chaumbre had he / in that hostelrye
Ful fetisly digħ t / with herbes swote
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Corrected from: x ndAndndhe hī self / as swete as is the rote
And : The initial A is probably a correction from another letter.ODR
Of licoris / or ony Setuale
His Almageste / and bokes grete and smale
His Astralabie / longyng for his art
His Augryme stones / loyn faire a pert
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On shelues / kouched / at his beddis hede
His presse couer ed / with a faldyng rede
And al a boue / there lay a gay Sautrye
On whiche he mad / on nygħ tis melodye
So swetely / þ at al the chaumber rong
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And Angelus ad virginem / he song
And after that / he song the kynges note
Ful often blissed / was his mery throte
And thus this swete Clerk / his tyme spent
After his frendis fyndyng / and his rent
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Whicħ þ at he loued / more than his lyf
Of xviij ȝere / she was of age
Ielous he was / & held hire narwe in kage
For she was wylde / & ȝong / and he was old
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And demed hī self / to ben like a Cokewold
He knew nat Catou
That bad men shulde wedde / here simulitude
Men shulde wedden / after here astate
For ȝouthe and age / is often at debate