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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 Nun's Priest's Tale Folio 191v 9 of 12 folios
By swiche ensamples olde / maist þ u leere
That noman shulde be to rechelees
Of dreemes / for I sey the doutelees
That many a dreeme / ful sore is for to drede
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That was kenulphus sone / the noble kyng
Of Mertenrike / how kenelm mette a thȳ ng
A lite or he was mordred / on the day
His mordre / in his auysioū he say
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His Norice / ħ ī expouned euer ydel
His sweuene / & bad ħ ī for to kepe ħ ī wel
Fro tresoun / but he nas but seuene ȝer old
Of any dreem / so holy was his herte
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By god I hadde leuere / than my sherte
That ȝe had red his legende / as haue I
In Affrike of the worthy Cipioun
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Warnynge of thynges / that men after sen
In the olde testament / of Danyel
If he helde dreemes / any vanytee
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Where dreemes ben somtyme / I seye nat alle
Warnyng of thynges / þ t shuln after falle
Loke of Egipte / the kyng Daun pharaoo
His Bakere / and his Boteler also
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Wher they ne felt / noon effecte in dreemes
Who so wol seke actes / of sondry Remes
May rede of Dreemes / many a wondir thyng
Lo Cresus / whicħ þ t was / of lyde kyng
Mette he nat / that he sat vp oon a tree
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Whicħ signyfied / he shulde an hanged be
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That day þ t Ector / shulde lese his lif
She dreemed / on the same nygħ t byforñ
How þ t the lyf of Ector / shulde be lorñ
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If thilke day he went / in to bataille
She warned ħ ī / but it mygħ t nat a vaille
He went for to figħ t / nathelees
But he was slayn a noon / of Achilles
But thilke tale / is al to long to telle