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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 45r 3 of 15 folios
Suffisyng right I now / as for a day
But er that he / had mad al this array
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He sent his knaue / and eke his wenche also
Vp on his nede / to londoū for to go
And on the monday / whan it drow to nygħ t
He shette his dore / with outen candel ligħ t
And dressyd al thyng / as it shulde be
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And shortly / vp they clymben alle thre
They setyn stille / wel a forlong wey
Now pater noster / clum seide Nicholay
And clum qd Ioħ n / and clum seide Alisou
This Carpenter / seide his deuocioū
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And stille he syt / and biddeth his prayere
A waytyng on the reyn / if he it here
The dede slepe / for verrey besynesse
Fel on this Carpenter / rigħ t as I gesse
A boute curfewe tyme / or litel more
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For ta uaille of his gost / he gronetħ sore
And eft he routetħ / for his hede myslay
Doun on the laddre / stalketh Nicholay
With oute wordes mo / they gon to bedde
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There as this Carpenter / is wont to lye
There was the reuel / and the melodye
And thus lyn Alisoū / and Nicholas
In besynesse of myrthe / and in Solas
Til that the belle / of laudes gan to rynge
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And freres in the chaunsel / goñ synge
That is for loue / al wey so woo bygon
Vp on the monday / was at Osneye
With companye / hi to disporte and pleye
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And axed vp on cas / a cloisterere
Ful preuyly / after Ioħ n the Carpentere
And he drougħ hī a pert / ouȝt of the chirche
And seide I not / I saugħ hī here nat werche
Sithe Satirday / I trowe þ at he be went
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For tymber / there oure Abbot hatħ hī sent
For he Corrected from: h<nothing> h is wont / for tymber for to go
And dwellyn at the Graunge / a day or two
Or ellis he is / at his hous certeyn
Where þ at he be / I kan nat sothely seyn
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And thouȝt now is tyme / to wake al nygħ t