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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 199r 13 of 14 folios
Cō mendetħ it / and seitħ in this manere
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Seynt Cecile / fulfild of goddes ȝifte
The world and eke hire chaumbre / gan she weyue
Wytnesse Tiburces / and Cecilies shrifte
To whicħ / god of his bountee wolde shifte
Corones two / of floures wel smellynge
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And made his Aungel / hē the corones brynge
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The world hatħ wist / what it is wortħ certeyn
Tho shewed hī Cecile / al open & pleyn
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That alle ydoles / nys but a thyng in veyn
For they ben doumbe / & þ er to they ben deeue
And charged hī / his ydoles for to leeue
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Quod tho Tiburce / if that I shal nat lye
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And she gan kisse his breest / that herde this
And was ful glad / he coude trouthe espye
This day / I take the / for myn allye
Seide this blisful / faire mayde deere
And after þ t she seide / as ȝe moun heere
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Made me thy brothers wyf / rigħ t in that wyse
Syn þ t þ u wolt / thyne ydoles despise
Go witħ thy brother now / and the baptise
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And make the clene / so þ t þ u mowe byholde
The Aungels face / of whicħ thy brother tolde
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First telle me / whider þ t I shal / & to what man
To whom qd he / come fortħ wt rigħ t good cheere
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I wol the lede / vn to the Pope vrban
To vrban / Brother myn valerian
Quod tho Tiburce / woltow me thider lede
Me thynketħ / that it were a wonder dede
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That is so ofte dampned / to be ded
And wonetħ in halkes / alwey to and froo
And dar nat oones / putte fortħ his hed
Men shulde hī brennen / in a fyr so red
If he were founde / or þ t men mygħ t hī spie