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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
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I say the wooful day / fatal / is come
That there may be / no lengere tariynge
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And forthward they hem dressen / alle & some
Custaunce that was / with sorwe al ouer come
Ful pale a rist / and dressitħ hire to wende
For wel she setħ / þ er e is noon other ende
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That shal be sent / to straunge nacione
Fro frendes / þ at so tenderly hire kepte
And to be bounde / vnder subieccione
Of oon / she knoweþ nouȝt / his condicione
Housbondes ben alle goode / and han ben ȝore
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That knowen wyues / I dar sey ȝow nomore
Thy ȝonge dougħ ter / fostred vp so softe
And ȝe my moder / my souereigne plesaunce
Ouer alle thynge / out take crist on loft
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Custaunce ȝoure child / hire recomaundetħ oft
Vn to ȝoure grace / for I shal to Surrye
Ne shal I neuer e / sen ȝow more witħ eye
I must goon / syn that it is ȝoure wylle
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But crist that starf / for oure sauacione
So ȝeue me grace / hise hestes to fulfille
I wrecched wō man / no fors thougħ I spille
Wō men arn borñ / to thraldom & penaunce
And to ben / vnder mā nes gouer nance
A cross in dry point appears in the left margin.ODR
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Or Ylyon brende / Thebes the Citee
Ne at Rome / for the harme thurgħ hanybal
That Romeyns han venquyssed / tymes three
Nas herd / swicħ tendre wepynge / for pitee
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As in the chaumbre was / for hire departynge
But fortħ she moot / wheiþ er so she wepe or synge
primi motus celi, duo sunt , quorum vnus
est qui mouet totum semper , ab oriente in
occidentem , vno modo super orbes
Item aliter vero motus est , qui mouet
orbem stellarum currencium contra motum
primum , videlicet ab occidente in orientem
super alios duos polos
Witħ thy dyurnal sweigħ / that Corrected from: cronwedestcrowdestcron we dest ay
crou we dest : The underdotting is done with a darker ink: the same that inserted the gloss.ODR
And hurlest alle / fro Est til Occident
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That naturelly wolde holde / a nother wey
Thy crowdyng sette the heuene / in swicħ array
At the bygynnynge / of this fiers viage
That cruel Mars / hatħ slayn this mariage
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Of whicħ the lord / is helplees falle allas
Ouȝt of his angle / in to the derkest hous