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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 183r 2 of 18 folios
Shal on hire hed now / were a vitrymyte
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And she þ t bar the Ceptre / ful of floures
Shal bere a distaf / hire cost for to quyte
As any fend / þ t litħ ful lowe a douñ
Ȝet he / as telletħ vs / Swetoneus
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This wilde world / had in subieccoū
Bothe Est and West / Nortħ & semptrioū
Of Rubies Saphires / & of Perles white
Were alle hise clothes breided / vp & douñ
For he in gē mes / gretly gan delite
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More proud / was neuer e Emper or / than he
That ilke clotħ / þ t he had wered oo day
After þ t tyme / he nolde it neuer e see
Nettes of gold thred / had he gret plentee
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To fisshe in Tybre / whan hī liste pleye
Hise lustes were as lawe / in his degree
For fortune as his frend / hī wolde obeye
The Senatours he slew / vp on a day
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To here how þ t men / wolde wepe & crye
His Moder mad he / in pitous array
For he hire wombe slitte / to be holde
Where he conceyued was / so weylaway
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That he so litel / of his moder tolde
Ne com / but seide / a fair wō man was she
Gret wonder is / how þ t he coude or mygħ te
Be domesman / of hire dede beaute
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The wyn to bryngen hī / comaunded he
Whan mygħ t is ioyned / vn to crueltee ¶ Nota
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Allas to depe / wol the venym wade
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To teche hī lettrure / and curteisie
For of moralitee / he was the flour
As in his tyme / but if bookes lye
He maked hi so konnynge / & so souple
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That longe tyme it was / þ t or tyrā nye
Or any vice durste / in hī vncouple