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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 43v 14 of 15 folios
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This Carpenter goth doun / and cometh a geyn
And brougħ t of mygħ ty ale / a large quart
And whā ne þ t ecħ of hem / had dronken his part
This Nicholas / his dore faste shette
And doun the Carpenter / by hī he sette
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And seide Ioħ n myn host / lef and dere
Thow shalt vp on thy treuthe / swere me heere
That to no wygħ t / þ u shalt my counseil wreye
For it is cristes counseil / þ at I seye
And if þ u telle ony man / þ u art for lore
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For this vengeaunce / thow shalt haue þ er fore
That if þ u wreye me / thow shalt be wode
Corrected from: ¶ <nothing> c Nay / criste for bede it / for his holy blode
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Quod tho this sely man / I am non labbe
Ne thougħ I sey it / I nam nat lief to gabbe
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Sey what þ u wyle / I shal it neuer e telle
To child ne wyf / by hī þ t harwed helle
I haue founden / in myn Astrologye
As I haue loked / in the Mone brigħ t
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That now on monday next / at quarter nygħ t
Shal fallen a reyn / and that so wylde & wood
That half so gret / was neuer e Noes flod
This world he seide / in lesse than an houre
Shal be dreynt / so hydous is the shoure
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Thus shal mankynde / drenche / & lese here lif
Corrected from: ¶ <nothing> c This Carpenter answered / allas my wyf
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And shal she drenche / allas myn Alisou
For sorwe of this / he fel al most a doun
And seide / is there no remedye in this cas
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We ȝis forgode / qd hende Nicholas
If þ u wylt werken / after lore and rede
Thow maist nat werken / after þ in owen hede
For thus seith Salamou / þ t was ful trewe
Werk al by counseyl / and þ ow shalt nat rewe
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And if thow werken wolt / by good counsaylle
I vndertake / with outen mast or saylle
Ȝet shal I saue hire / and the and me
Hast þ u nat herd / how saued was Noe
Whā ne þ at oure lord / had warned hī biforn
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That al the world / wt water shuld be lorn
Hast þ u nat herd / qd Nicholas also
The sorwe of Noe / with his felaweshipe