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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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But to no wygħ t he tolde / hise sorwes soore
But of his owen hond / he wroot a gayn
Welcome the sonde of Crist / for euer e more
To me that am now / lerned in his loore
Lord welcome be thy lust / and thy plesaunce
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My lust I putte / al in thyn ordinaunce
And eke my wyf / vn to myn hoom comynge
Crist whan hī list / may sende me an Eyr
Moore agreable / than this / to my likynge
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This ƚ re he seeletħ / pryuely wepynge
Whicħ to the messanger / was take soone
And fortħ he gotħ / there is nomore to done
in ore . tremor in corpore qui
promit stulta. prodit occulta. cui
mens alienatur. facie transformatur
nullum enim latet secretum, vbi reg
nat ebrietas;
Stronge is thy breetħ / thy lymes faltren ay
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And thow bywreyest / alle secrenesse
Thy mynde is lorñ / þ u ianglest as a Iay
Thy face is turned / in a newe aray
There dronkenesse regnetħ / in any route
There is no counseil hid / wt outen doute
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Vn to thy malice / and thy tyrannye
And þ er fore to the fend / I the resigne
Lat hym endyten / of thy traytorie
Fy mannyssħ fy / o nay be god I lye
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Fy feendly spirit / for I dar wel telle
Thougħ þ u heere walk / thy spirit is in helle
And at the kynges modres court / he ligħ t
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And pleesed hī / in al that euer e she mygħ t
He drank / and wel his girdel vnderpigħ t
He slepetħ and he fnortetħ / in his gyse
Al nygħ t to the Sonne gan aryse
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And countrefeted ƚ res / in this wyse
The kyng comaundetħ / his Constable a noon
Vp peyne of hangynge / and on hey Iuyse
That he ne shulde suffren / in no wyse
Custance witħ Inne his regne / for to abide
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Three dayes / and o quarter of a tyde
Hire and hire ȝong sone / and al hire gere