Manuscript images © Cambridge University Library. Reproduction is strictly prohibited.
- You are now viewing the graphical version of the manuscript
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 182r 17 of 18 folios
Thanne wold she suffre hī / done his fantasie
Eft sone / and nat but ones / out of drede
290
Nomore shulde he pleyen / thilke game
Til fully fourty dayes / weren past
Thā ne wolde she ones suffre hī / do the same
Al were this Onedake / wylde or tame
He gat nomore of hire / for thus she seide
295
The whicħ she kept in vertu / and lettrure
But now / vn to oure tale / turne we
300
So penyble in the werre / & curteis eke
Ne more labour mygħ t / in werre endure
Was none / thougħ al this world mē shulde seke
305
She was al clad / in perry / and in golde
And eke she left nougħ t / for non huntynge
To haue of sondry tonges / ful knowynge
310
Whan þ t she leiser hadde / & for to entende
To lerne bookes / was al hire likynge
How she in vertu / mygħ t hire lyf despende
So dougħ ty was hire housbond / & eke she
315
That they cō quered / many regnes grete
In the orient / wt many a fair Citee
Apper tenaū t / vn to the Magestee
Of Rome / & wt strong hond / held hē ful faste
Ne neuer e mygħ t here foomen / don hē flee
320
Ay / whil that Onedakes dayes / laste
And how þ t al this pro cesse / fel in dede
Why she cō quered / & what title þ er to
325
And after of hire myschef / & hire woo
How þ t she was byseged / and I take
Lat hī / vn to my Maister / Petrak go
That wryt I now / of this / I vndertake