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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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The Regnes helde / & wt hire pro pre honde
That there nas kyng / ne Pi nce / in al þ t lond
That he nas glad / if he þ t grace fond
That she ne wolde / vp on his land verreye
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Witħ hire they made / alliaunce / by bonde
To ben in pees / and lete hire ride & pleye
Ne hī biforñ / the Romayn Galien
Ne dursten neuer e / ben so corageous
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Ne noon Ermyn / ne noon Egipcien
Ne Surrien / ne Corrected from: nō nō Arrabien
W Inne the feldes / þ t durst wt hire figħ t
Leest þ t she wolde hē / wt hire handes slen
Or wt hire meyne / putten hē to fligħ t
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As Eyres / of here fadres Regnes alle
Here names were / as Persiens hē calle
But ay fortune hatħ / in hire hony / galle
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This mygħ ty Quene / may no while endure
Fortune / out of hire regne / mad hire falle
To wrecchednesse / and to mysauenture
Of Rome / come in to handes tweye
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He shope vp on this Quene / to do vengeaunce
And wt hise legions / he toke his weye
Toward Cenobie / & shortly for to seye
He mad hire flee / and atte laste hire hente
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And wan the lond / & home to Rome he wente
Hire Char / that was / wt gold wrougħ t / & perre
This gret Romayn / this Aurelian
Hatħ wt hī ladde / for þ t men shulde it se
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Biforñ his Triumphe / walketħ she
W gilt cheynes / on hire nekke hangynge
Corovned was she / as after hire degree
And ful of Perre / charged hire clothynge
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Now gauretħ al the peeple / on hire / allas