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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 Monk's Tale Folio 180v 14 of 18 folios
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A monges othere / Danyel was oon
That was the wysest child / of euer ychon
For he the dremes / of the kyng expouned
Where as in Chadeie / clerk ne was þ er e noon
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That wist to what fyn / hise dremes souned
Sexti cubites long / & seuene in brede
To whicħ ymage / he bothe ȝong and old
Comaunded to loute / and haue in drede
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Or in a furneys / ful of flaumbes rede
He shal be brent / þ t wolde nougħ t obeye
But neuer e wolde assent / to that dede
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He wende that god / þ t sit in mageste
Ne mygħ t hī nat byreue / of his estat
But sodeynly / he loost his dignetee
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Til certeyne tyme / was I come a boute
His nayles lyke / a briddes clawes were
Til god relesed hī / a certeyne ȝeres
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He thanked god / & euer e his lyf in fere
Was he / to don amys / or more trespace
And til þ t tyme / he leyd was oon his bere
He knew þ at god / was ful of mygħ t & grace
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That helde the regne / after his fadres day
He by his fader / coude nougħ t by war
For proud he was of herte / & of array
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His heigħ estat / assured hī in pride
But fortune kest hī doun / & þ er e he lay
And sodeynly his regne / gan dyuyde
Vppon a tyme / & made hē blithe be
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And thā ne his officers / gan he calle
Goth bryngetħ fortħ / the vesseles qd he
Whicħ þ t my fader / in his prosper itee
Out of the temple of I erusalem / biraft