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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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They han hire sette / and bidden hire lerne saile
Out of Surrie / ageynward to Itaile
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And sothe to seyn / vitaille gret plentee
They han hire ȝeuen / & clothes eke she hadde
And forth she seiletħ / in the salt See
O my Custaunce / ful of benignytee
O Emper oures / ȝonge dougħ ter deere
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He þ t is lord ouer fortune / be thy steere
Vn to the Croos of ci st / thus seide she
O cleer / o welful auter / holy croys
Reed of the lambes blood / ful of pitee
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That wesshe the world / fro þ e olde iniquite
Me fro the fende / and fro his clawes kepe
That day þ at I shal drenchen / in the depe
That oonly worthy were / for to bere
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The kyng of heuene / with hise woundes newe
The whit lamb þ t hurt was / witħ a spere
Flemer of feendes / out of hī and heere
On whiche thy lymes / feithfully extenden
Me kepe / and ȝeue me mygħ t / my lif to amenden
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Thurgħ out the see / of Grece / vn to the strayte
Of Marrok / as it was hire auenture
O many sory meel / now may she bayte
Aftir hire detħ / ful often may she wayte
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Er that the wylde wawes / wyln hire dryue
Vn to the place / there she shal arryue
Eke atte feest / whoo mygħ t hire body saue
And I answere / to that demaunde a gayne
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Who saued Danyel / in the horrible caue
There euer y wygħ t saw he / maister and knaue
Was witħ the leoū / freet / er he a sterte
No wygħ t but god / that he bar in his herte
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In hire / for we shulde / seen his mygħ ty werkes
Crist whicħ þ at is / to euer y harm triacle
By certeyn menes oft / as knowen clerkes
Dotħ thyng for certeyn ende / that ful derk is
To mā nes wyt / that for oure ignoraunce
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Ne konne nougħ t knowe / his prudent purueaunce