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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 Second Nun's Tale Folio 195v 1 of 14 folios
Se whicħ braunes / hatħ this gentil Preest
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So gret a nekke / & swicħ a large breest
He loketħ as a Spar hauke / wt hise eyen
Hī nedetħ nat / his colour for to dygħ en
W brasile / ne witħ greyn of Portyngale
Now sire / faire falle ȝow / for ȝoure tale
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Seide vn to a nother / as ȝe shuln heere
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/ & bigynnetħ the
Secund Nonnes Tale of Seynt Cecile / witħ oute a íloge ;
Secund Nonnes Tale of Seynt Cecile / wit
Th e ministre / and the Norice vn to vices
Whicħ þ t men clepen / in Englissħ / ydelnesse
That porter at the gate is / of delices
To eschuen / & by hire conta rie / hire opper sse
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That is to seyn / by leueful bysinesse
Wel ougħ te we / to don al oure entente
Leest þ t the fend / thurgħ ydelnesse vs hente
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Continuely vs waytetħ / to biclappe
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Whan he may man / in ydelnesse espie
He can so ligħ tly / cacche hī in his trappe
Til þ t a man be hent / rigħ t by the lappe
He nys nat war / the fend hath hī in honde
Wel ougħ te vs werche / & ydelnesse wt stonde
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