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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 44r 15 of 15 folios
Er th at h e mygħ t g ete / h is wyf to shipe
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Hym had be leuere / I dar wel vndertake
At thilk tyme / than alle hise wetheres blake
That she had had / a shipe hire self a lone
And þ er fore wost þ u what / is best to done
This asketh hast / and of an hasty thyng
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Men moun nat per che / and maken tariyng
A non go gete vs fattes / in to this Inne
A knedyng trow / or ellis a kamelyne
For ecħ of vs / but loke þ t they be large
In whiche we moun swȳ me / as in a barge
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And haue þ er e Inne / vetaille sufficient
But for o day / fy on the remenaunt
The water shal a slake / and gon a wey
A boute prime / vp on the next day
But Robyn may nat wyte / of this / thy knaue
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Ne eke thy mayde Gille / I may nat saue
Aske nat why / for thougħ þ u axe me
I wol nat telle / goddis preuyte
Suffiseth the / but if thyne wyttes madde
To han as gret a grace / as Noe hadde
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Thy wyf shal I wel sauen / ouȝt of doute
Go now thy wey / and spede the here a boute
But whan þ u hast / for hire and the and me
I geten vs / theise knedyng tubbes thre
Thā ne shalt þ u hangen hem / in the roof ful heye
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That noman / of oure purueance / espie
And whan þ ow hast doñ / as I haue seid
And hast oure vetaille / faire in hem leyd
And eke an ax / to smyte the corde a two
Whan þ t the water cometh / þ t we may go
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And breke an hole an hey / vp on the gable
Vn to the gardeyn ward / ouer the stable
That we moun freely passen / forth oure wey
Whā ne þ t the grete shour / is gon a wey
Thā ne shalt þ u swȳ me / as mery I vndertake
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As doth the white doke / after hire drake
Than wyl I clepe / how Alisoū / how Ioħ n
Be mery / for the flode / shal passe a non
And þ u wolt seyn / heyl Maister Nicholay
Good morwe / I se the wele / for it is day
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And þ ā ne shuln we / be lordes aƚƚ oure lyf
Of al the world / as Noe and his wyf