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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 181v 16 of 18 folios
For whan fortune / wil a man forsake
She beretħ a wey his regne / & his richesse
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And eke hise frendes / bothe more & lesse
For what man þ t hatħ frendes / thurgħ fortune
Mishape / wyl make hem enemys / I gesse ¶ Cenobia
This pro uer be is ful sotħ / & ful comune
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So worthy was in armes / & so kene
That no wigħ t passed hire / in hardynesse
Ne in lynage / ne Corrected from: ī ī ~ other gentillesse
Of kynges blod of Perce / is she descended
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But of hire shape / she mygħ t nat ben amended
Office of wō men / and to wode she went
And many a wylde hertes blood / she shedde
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Witħ arwes brode / þ t she to hē sente
She was so swift / þ t she a noon hē hente
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And rennen in the Mountaignes / al the nygħ t
Wrastlen by verrey force / and verry mygħ t
W any ȝonge man / were he neuer e so wygħ t
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There mygħ t no thyng / in hire armes stonde
She kept hire maydenhode / from euer y wigħ t
To no man deigned hire / for to be bonde
To Onedake / a Pi nce of that contree
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And ȝe shuln vnderstonde / how that he
Hadde suche fantasies / as hadde she
But nathelees / whan they were knytte in fere ¶ id est simul.
They lyued in ioye / and in felicitee
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For ecħ of hē had other / lief & dere
By no wey / þ t he shulde by hire lye
But oones / for it was hire pleyn entent
To haue a child / the world to multiplie
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And also sone / as þ t she mygħ t espie
That she was nat witħ childe / wt þ at dede