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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 Man of Law's Tale Folio 59v 2 of 21 folios
Who k epte hire / f ro the drenchynge in the See
Who kepte Ionas / in the fysshes mawe
Til he was spouted vp / at Nynyuee
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Wel may men knowe / it was no wygħ t but hee
That kepte peeple Ebrayk / fro here drenchynge
Witħ drye feet / thurgħ out the see passynge
That power han / to anoyen lond and see
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Bothe Nortħ and soutħ / and also West and Est
Anoyetħ neither see / ne lond ne tree
Sothely the comaundour / of that was he
That fro the tempest / ay this wō man kepte
As wel whan she wook / as whan she slepte
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Thre ȝer & more / how lastetħ hire vetaille
Who fedde the egipciene Marye / in the caue
Or in desert / no wygħ t but crist saunz faille
Fyue thousand folk / it was as gret mer uaylle
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Witħ loues fyue / and fisshes two to fede
God sent his foysoū / at here grete nede
Thurgħ out oure wylde see / til at the laste
Vnder an hold / that nempnen I ne can
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Fer in Nortħ humberlond / the wawe hire caste
And in the sond / hire shipe stiked so faste
That thens wold it nougħ t / of al a tyde
The wyl of criste was / that she shulde a byde
There is a cross in dry point next to this stanza.ODR
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To sen this wrek / and al the shipe he sougħ t
And fond this wery wō man ful of care
He fond also / the tresor þ t she brougħ t
In hire langage / mercy she bysougħ t
The lyf out of hire body / for to twynne
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Hire to delyuere of woo / that she was Inne
But algates ther by / was she vnderstonde
The Constable whan hī list / no lengere seche
This wooful wō man / brougħ t he to the londe
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She kneletħ doun / and thanketħ goddes sonde
But what she was / she wold noman say
For foule ne fayr / thougħ that she shulde deye
That she forgat / hir mynde be hire trouthe
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The Constable hatħ of hire / so gret pitee
And eke his wyf / that þ ei wepen for routhe