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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 194r 3 of 12 folios
Is in ȝoure court / and many a losengeour
That plesen ȝow wel more / be my feitħ
Than he that sootħ fastnesse / vn to ȝow seitħ
Redetħ Ecclesiast / of flaterie
510
Betħ war ȝe lordes / of here trecherie
Strecchynge his nekke / & helde hise eyen cloos
And gan to crowe loude / for the nones
515
And by the gargat / hente Chauntecler
And on his bak / vn to the wode ħ ī beer
For ȝet ne was þ er e noman / þ t ħ ī sewid
O destynee / þ t may nat ben eschewed
Allas that Chauntecler / fley fro the beemes
520
Allas his wyf / ne rougħ te nat of dreemes
Syn þ t thyn servaū t / was this Chauntecleer
And in thy seruyce / dyd al his power
525
More for delyt than world to multiplie
Why woltow suffre ħ ī / on thy day to dye
That whan thy worthy kyng / Richard was slayn
Witħ shot compleynedest / his deetħ so sore
530
Why ne had I now / thy science & thy lore
The friday for to chide / as deden ȝe
For on a friday sootħ ly / slayn was he
Than wolde I shewe how / þ t I coude pleyne
For Chauntecleres drede / & for his peyne
535
Certes swicħ cry / ne lamentacioū
Was neuer e of ladies mad / whan ylioū
Was wonne / & Pirrus wt his streite swerd
Whan he had hente / kyng Pi amë by the berd
And slayn ħ ī / as seitħ vs Eneydes
540
As maden alle the hennes / in the cloos
Whan they had seyn / of Chauntecleer the sigħ te
But souer eynly / Dame Pertelote shrigħ te
Ful loudere / than dede / hasdrubales wyf
Whan þ t hire housbonde / hadde I lost his lyf
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545
She was so ful of tr ment / and of rage
That wilfully / in to the fyr she stirte
And brent hire seluen / wt a stedfast herte