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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 43r 13 of 15 folios
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This man is fallen / with his Astronomye
In som woodnesse / or in som Agonye
I thougħ t ay wele / how that it shulde be
Men shuld nat knowe / of goddis preuyte
Ȝa blissed be alwey / a lewed man
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That nougħ t but only / his byleue can
So ferde a nother clerk / wt his Astronomye
He walked in the feldes / for to prye
Vp on the sterres / what there shuld byfalle
Til þ at he / in a marle pyt / was falle
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He saw nat that / but ȝet be Seynt Thomas
Me reweth sore / of hende Nicholas
He shal be ratid / of his studiyng
If þ at I may / be Iħ us heuene kyng
Get me a staf / that I may vnder pore
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While þ at þ ow Robyn / heuest of the dore
He shal ouȝt of his studiyng / as I gesse
And to the chaumbre dore / he gan hī dresse
His knaue was a strong Carl / for the nones
And by the haspe / he haf it of at ones
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In to the flore / the dore fel a non
This Nicholas sat ay as stille / as ony ston
And euer e he gaped vpward / in to the Eyre
This Carpentere wende / he were in dispeyre
And hent hī / by the shuldres / mygħ ttyly
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And shoke hī harde / and cried spetously
What Nicholay / what how / loke a doun
A wake / and thynk on cristes passiou
I crouche the from Elues / and fro wygħ tes
There with the nygħ t spel / seide he a non rigħ tes
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On foure halues / of the hous a boute
And on the thressewold / at the dore wt oute
Iħ u crist / and Seynt Benedygħ t
Blisse this hous / fro euer y euyl wygħ t
For the nygħ tesmare / the whyȝt Pater noster
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Where wonest thow / Seynt Petres Suster
Gan for to sigħ e sore / and seide allas
Shal al the world / be lost eftsones now
This Carpenter answered / what seist þ u
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What thynk on god / as we don men þ t swynke
And after wol I speke / in preuyte
Of thyng þ at toucheth / the and me