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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 198r 11 of 14 folios
Vrban for ioye / his handes gan vp holde
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Almygħ ty lord / o Ihū Crist quod he
Sowere of chast counseil / hierde of vs alle
The fruyt of thilke seed / of Chastitee
That þ u hast sowe in Cecile / take to the
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Lo lyke a bisy bee / witħ oute gyle
The seruytħ ay / thyn owen thral Cecile
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Ful lyke a fiers leoū / she senditħ heere
As meke / as euere was any lamb to ȝow
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And wt þ t word / a noon there gan appere
An olde man / clad in white clothes clere
That hadde a book / wt ƚ re of gold in honde
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Whan he hī say / & he vp hente hī tho
And oon his book / rigħ t thus he gan to rede
O lord / of o feitħ / o god / witħ oute moo
O cristendom / and fader of alle also
A bouen alle / & ouer alle / euery where
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Theise wordes / alle wt gold / I wretyn were
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Leeuest þ u this thyng or no / sey ȝa or nay
I leue alle thyng / quod valerian
For sother thyng than this / I dar wel say
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Vnder the heuene / no wygħ t thynke may
Tho vanysshed this olde man / he nyste where
And Pope vrban / hī cristened rigħ t there
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W Inne his Chaumbre / wt an Aungel stond
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This Aungel hadde of Roses / and of lilie
Corounes two / the whicħ he bar in honde
And first to Cecile / as I vnderstonde
He ȝaf that oon / and after gan he take
That other / to valerian hire make
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Kepetħ ay wel / theise corones quod he
Fro Paradys to ȝow / haue I hem brougħ t
Ne neuere moo / ne shuln they roten be
Ne lese here swote sauour / trustetħ me