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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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That it was pi me / and krew witħ blisful steuene
The Sonne he seide / is clomben vp on heuene
Fourty degrees and oon / and more I wys
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Madame Pertelote / my worldlis blys
Herkenetħ theise blisful bryddes / how they synge
And se the fresshe floures / how they sprynge
Ful is myn herte / of reuel and solas
But sodeynly ħ ī fel / a sorweful caas
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For euer e the lattere ende / of ioye / is woo ¶ Nota Salamon
God woot þ t worldly ioye / is sone a go
And if a Rethor / coude faire endite
He in a cronycle saufly / mygħ t it wryte
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Now euer y wys man / lat ħ ī herkne me
This storie is also trewe / I vndertake
There is a small cross in the left margin. ODR
As is the book / of launcelot de lake
That wō men holde / in ful gret reuerence
Now wol I turne a geyn / to my sentence
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That in the groue had woned / ȝeres three
By hey ymaginacioū / fore cast
The same nygħ t / thurgħ out the hegges brast
In to the ȝerd / there Chaunteclere the faire
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Was wont / and eke his wyues to repaire
Til it was passed / vnderne of the day
Waytyng his tyme / on Chauntecleer to falle
As gladly doon / theise homycides alle
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That in a wayt liggen / to murdre men
O false mordrour / liggyng in thy den
O newe scaryot / newe Gaenylon
Fals dissimilour / o greek Synon
That brougħ test Troye / al vttirly to sorwe
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O Chaunteclere / accursed be the morwe
That þ u in to þ t ȝerd / flaugħ / fro the beemes
Thow were ful wel I warned / by thy dreemes
That thilke day / was perilous to thee
But what þ t god forwoot / mot nedes bee
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After the opynyoun / of certeyn Clerkes
Wytnesse oon ħ ī / þ t any parfyt Clerk is
That in Scole / is gret altricacioun
In this matere / and gret disputisioun