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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 42v 12 of 15 folios
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For this was hire desir / and his also
And rigħ t a non / with oute wordes moo
This Nicholas / no lengere wold tarie
But doth ful softe / vn to his chaumbre carie
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Bothe mete and drynk / for a day or twey
And to hire husbonde / bad hire for to sey
If þ at he axed / after Nicholas
She shulde seye / she nyst where he was
Of al that day / she sey hī nat with eye
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She trowed þ at he was / in sum maladye
For for no cry / hire mayde koude hī calle ¶ quia. pro.
He nolde answere / for thyng þ t mygħ t falle
This passeth fortħ / al thilk Satirday
That Nicholas stille / in his chaumbre lay
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And ete and slepe / or dede what hī list
Til Sonday / that Corrected from: <nothing> þ eþ e Sonne gotħ to rest
Of Nicholas / or what thyng mygħ t hī eylle
And seide / I am a drad / by Seynt Thomas
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It stondeth nat a rigħ t / with Nicholas
God shilde / þ at he deyed sodeynly
This world is now / ful tekil sekerly
I saw to day / a cors I borñ to chirche
That now on monday last / I saw hī werche
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Go vp qd he / vn to his knaue a non
Clepe at the dore / and knokke wt a ston
Loke how it is / and telle me boldely
And at the chaumbre dore / while þ t he stode
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He cryed and knokked / as he were wode
What how / what do ȝe / Maister Nicholay
How may ȝe Corrected from: sh<nothing> sh slepen / al the long day
But al for nouȝt / he seide nat a worde
An hole he fond / ful lowe vp on the borde
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There as the Cat / was wont / In / for to crepe
And at that hole / he loked In / ful depe
This Nicholas sat euer e / gapyng vp rigħ t
As he had loked / on the newe Mone
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A doun he gotħ / and telleth his maister Sone
In what array / he saugħ this ilke man
And seide / helpe vs / Seynt Fredeswyde