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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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As whan þ at Nero / brente the Citee
Of Rome / criden Senatoures wyues
For þ t here housbondes losten alle here lyues
W outen gilt / this Nero hatħ ħ ē slayn
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The sely wydewe / and eke hire dougħ tren two
Herden theise hennes crie / and maken woo
And out at the dores / stirten they a noon
And seye the fox / to ward the groue goon
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And criden out harrowe / & weylaway
Ha ha the fox / and after ħ ī they ran
And eke wt staues / many a nother man
Ran Colle oure dogge / and Talbot & gerland
And Malkyn witħ a distaf / in hire hand
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Ran kow and kalf / and eke the verray hogges
So feered for the berkyng / of the dogges
And showtyng of the men / and wō men eke
They ronne so / ħ ē thougħ t here hertes breke
They ȝelleden as fendes / don in helle
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The Dokes criden / as men wolde ħ ē quelle
The Gees for fere / flowen ouer the trees
Out of the hyue / kom the swarme of bees
So hidous was the noise / a benedicitee
Certes he Iakke straw/ & his meyne
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Ne maden neuer e shoutes / half so shille
Whan þ t they wolden / any flemmyng kylle
Of Bras they broughten beemes / & of Box
Of horn / of Boon / in whicħ they blew & pouped
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And þ er e witħ al / they shrykeden & they houped
It semed / as þ t heuene shulde falle
Now goode men I prey ȝow / herkenetħ alle
Lo how fortune / turnetħ sodeynly
The hope & pride eke / of hire enemy
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This Cok þ t lay / vp oon the foxes bak
lay is written over an erasure.ODR
In al his drede / vn to the fox he spak
And seide sire / if I were as ȝe
Ȝet wolde I seyn / as wys god helpe me
Turnetħ a geyn / ȝe proude Cherles alle
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A verrey pestilence / vp oon ȝow falle
Now I am comē vn to the wodes syde
Maugree ȝoure hed / the Cook shal heere a bide
I wol ħ ī ete in feitħ / and that a noon