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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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The moder of the Soudan / riche and gay
Receyuetħ hire / with al so glad a chere
As any moder mygħ t / hire dougħ ter deere
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And to the next Citee / there beside
A softe paas / solempnely they ride
Of whicħ that lucan / maketħ swicħ a boost
Was reallere / or more curious
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Than was the assemble / of this blisful oost
But this scorpion / this wykked gost
The Soudanesse / for al hire flaterynge
Cast vnder this / ful mortally to stynge
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So really / that wonder is to telle
He welcometħ hire / witħ alle ioye & blisse
And thus in myrthe & ioye / I lat hem dwelle
The fruyt of this mater / is that I telle
Whan tyme come / men thouȝt it for the best
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That reuel stynt / and men gon to here rest
Ordeyned had this fest / of whiche I tolde
And to the feest / cristenfolk hem dresse
In gener al / ȝe bothe ȝonge and olde
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Here moun men feest / and realte beholde
And deyntees moo / than I can ȝow deuyse
But al to dere / they bougħ t it er they ryse
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To worldly blisse / spreynde witħ bitternesse ¶ Semper mundane leticie tristicia
repentina succedit , Mundana igitur
felicitas multis amaritudinibus est
repersa. extrema gaudij luctus occupat
Audi ergo salubre consilium
in die bonorum ne inmemor sis malorum ;
repentina succedit , Mundana igitur
felicitas multis amaritudinibus est
repersa. extrema gaudij luctus occupat
Audi ergo salubre consilium
in die bonorum ne inmemor sis malorum ;
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The ende of the ioye / of oure worldly labour
Woo / occupietħ the fyn / of oure gladnesse
Herkene this counseil / for thy sekirnesse
Vp on thy glad day / haue in thy mynde
The vnwar woo / or harm / þ t cometħ behynde
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The Soudan / & the ci stene euerichone
Ben al to hewe / and stiked at the bord
But it were oonly / Dame Custaunce allone
This olde Soudanesse / cursed crone
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Hatħ witħ hire frendes / doon this cursed dede
For she hire selue wolde / al the contree lede
That of the counseil / of the Soudan woot
That he nas al to hewe / er he a sterted
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And Custaunce han they take / a none foot hoot
And in a shippe / al steereles god woot
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