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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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Shortly I seye / as for conclusioū
That I shal han / of this auisioun
Aduer sitee / and I seye forthermoore
That I ne telle / of laxatyues no store
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For they ben venemous / I woot it wel
I hem deffye / I loue ħ ē neuer e a del
Madame Partelote / so haue I blis
Of oo thyng / god hatħ sent me / large grace
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For whan I se the beaute / of ȝoure face
Ȝe ben so scarlet reed / a boute ȝoure eyen
It maketħ al my drede / for to dyen
And whan I fele a nygħ t / ȝoure softe syde
For þ t oure perche / is maad so narwe allas
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I am so ful of ioye / and of solas
That I deffye / bothe sweuene and dreem
And witħ that word / he fley doun fro the beem
For it was day / and eke his hennes alle
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For he had founde a corn / lay in the ȝerd
Real he was / he was nomore a ferd
He fethered Pertelote / twenty tyme
And tradde hire eke / as ofte / er it was pi me
He loketħ as it were / a grym leoun
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Hī deyned nat to sette / his feet to go unde
And chukketħ / whan he hatħ / a corn I founde
And to ħ ī rennen thañ e / hise wyues alle
Thus real / as a Pi nce is / in his halle
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Leue I this Chaunteclere / in his pasture
That higħ te Marche / whan god first maked man
Was complet / and I passed were also
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Syn Marcħ bygan / thretty dayes & two
id est 2o. die
Bifel that Chauntecler / in al his pride ¶ Maij
His wyues seuene / walkyng ħ ī beside
Caste vp his eyen / to the brigħ t sonne
That in the signe of Taurus / hadde ronne
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Twenty degrees and oon / and somwhat more
He knew by kynde / and by noon oþ er loore