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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 181r 15 of 18 folios
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Of honour þ t oure eldres / witħ vs laft
Ay dronken / while here appetites laste
Out of þ eise noble vesseles / sondry wynes
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For fere of whicħ / he quoke & siked sore
This hand þ t Balthasar / so sore a gaste
Wroot / mane techel phares / & nomore
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That coude expoune / what þ is lbr;re mente
But Danyel / expouned it a noon
And seide kyng / god to thy fader sente
Glorie & honour / regne / tresor / Rente
And he was proud / & nothyng god ne dradde
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And hī bireft / the regne that he hadde
Witħ Asses / was his xx habitacioū
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Til þ t he knew by ga ce / & by resoū
That god of heuene / hatħ domynacoū
Ouer euer y regne / and euery creature
And hī restored his regne / & his figure
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Thow drank eke of hise vessels / boldely
Thy wyf eke / and þ ine wenches synfully
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And heriest false goddes / cursedly
Therfore to the / I shapen / ful gret peyne is
Wroot / Mane thechel phares / truste me
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Thy regne is don / þ u weyest nougħ t at al
To Medes and to Per ses / I ȝeuen qd he
And thilke same nygħ t this kyng was slawe
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Thougħ he þ er to had / neiþ er rigħ t ne lawe
How þ t in lordshipe / is no sykernesse