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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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To folk / that han I wedded hem / witħ rynges
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And ley a lite / here holynesse a syde
As for the tyme / it may no bet betide
And to a Busshope / and his Constable eke
He tok his wyf to kepe / whan he is gone
620
To Scotlondward / his foomen for to seke
Now fair Custaunce / þ t is so humble & meke
So longe is goon wt childe / to that stille
She halt hire chaumbre / a bidynge ci stes wylle
625
Mauricius at the fontstone / they hī calle
This Constable / dotħ fortħ come / a messanger
And wroot vn to his kynge / þ t cleped was Alle
How that this blisful tidynge / is byfalle
And othere tidynggis / spedeful for to seye
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He hatħ the ƚ re / and fortħ he gotħ his weye
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Vn to the kynges moder / ridetħ swithe
And saluetħ hire faire / in his langage
Madame qd he / ȝe may be glad and blithe
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And thanketħ god / an hundred thouȝsand sithe
My lady Queene hatħ child / wt oute doute
To ioye & blisse / to al this regne a boute
That I moot beere / witħ al the hast I may
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If ȝe wol augħ t vn to ȝoure sone the kynge
I am ȝoure seruaū t / bothe nygħ t and day
Donegilde answered / as now at this tyme / nay
But heere al nygħ t / I wol thow take thy reest
To morwe wol I sey thee / what me leest
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And stolen were hise ƚ res / Preuyly
Out of his box / while he slepe / as a swyne
And countrefeted was / ful subtilly
A nother ƚ re / wrougħ t ful synfully
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Vn to the kynge / directe of this mateer
Fro his Constable / as ȝe shuln after heer
Of so horrible / a feendliche creature
That in the Castel / noon so hardy was
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That any while / durst there endure
The moder was an Elf / be auenture
I comen be charmes / or by sorcerie