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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 183v 3 of 18 folios
By cause Nero hadde of hī / swicħ drede
For he fro Corrected from: Vxx esvxx es vices / wolde hī ay chastise vxx es : The scribe appears to have cancelled this word, perhaps because of a smudge on some of the letters.Est
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Sire wolde he seyn / an Emper our mot nede
Be vertuous / and hate tirannye
For whicħ / he in a batħ / made hī to blede
On bothe hise armes / til he muste dye
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Whicħ afterward / hī þ ougħ te a gret greuaū ce
Therfore he made hī dyen / in this wyse
But nathelees / this Seneka / this wyse
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Ches in a bathe / to dye in this manere
Rathere / than han / a nother turmentrie
The heye pride / of Nero to cherice
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For thougħ þ t he was sto ng / ȝet was she strengere
She thougħ te thus / by god I am to nyce
To sette a man / that is fulfilled of vice
By god / out of his Sete / I wol hī trice
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Whan he leest wenetħ / Sonest shal he falle
For his defaute / and whan he it espied
Out at his doores / a noon he hatħ hī digħ t
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He knokked faste / and ay the more he cried
The fastere shette they / here doores alle
Tho wiste he wel / he hadde hī self mys gyed
And went his wey / no lengere durst he calle
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That wt hise Eres / herd he how they seide
Where is this fals tyraunt / this Neroū
For fere almost / out of his wyt he breide
And to hise goddes / pitously he preyde
For Socour / but it mygħ t nougħ t betide
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For drede of this / hī þ ougħ t þ t he deyde
And ran in to a Gardyne / hī to hide
That setyn by a fir / gret and red
And to theise cherles / he gan to preye
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To slen hī / & to girden of / his hed
That to his body / whan þ t he were ded