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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 42r 11 of 15 folios
And spak vn to his wyf / and seide a non
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What Alisoū / herest þ u nat Absolou
That chaunteth thus / vnder oure boures walle
And she answered hire husbond / there wt alle
Ȝis god wot Ioħ n / I here it euer y dele
This passeth fortħ / what wyl ȝe bet than wele
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Fro day to day / this Ioly Absolou
So wougheth hire / that hī is woo bygon
He waketh al the nygħ t / and al the day
He kembeth hise lokkes brode / & mad hī gay
He wougheth hire by menes / and brocage
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And swor he wolde ben / hire owen page
He syngeth brokkyng / as a Nyghttyngale
And sent hire pyment / Meth & Spiced ale
And waferes pypyng hote / ouȝt of the glede
And for she was of Toune / he profred mede
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And sō me for strokes / and sō me for gentilnesse
Somtyme to shewen / his ligħ tnesse and maistrye
He pleyeth Heraudes / vp on a skaffold heye
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She loueth so / this hende Nicholas
That Absolou may blowe / the bukkes horn
He ne had for his labour / but a skorn
And thus she maketh / Absolou hire Ape
And al his ernest / turneth to a Iape
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Ful soth is this pro uer be / it is no lye
Men seyn rigħ t thus / alwey the nye slye
Maketh the fer leef / to be loth
For thougħ þ t Absolou / be wood or wroth
By cause þ t he fer was / from hire sigħ t
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This nye Nicholas / stod in his ligħ t
For Absolou may waylle / and synge allas
And so byfel it / that on a Saterday
This Carpenter / was gon to Osney
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And hende Nicholas / and Alisou
Accorded ben / to this conclusiou
That Nicholas / shal shapen hem a wyle
The sely Ielous husbonde / to begyle
And if so be / the game went a rigħ t