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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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That is I hid / in heuene pryuely
To whom Cecile answerde / boldely
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Men mygħ ten dredyn wel / and skylfully
This lyf to lese / myn owne deere brother
If this were lyuyng oonly / & noon other
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That neuer e shal be lost / ne drede the nougħ t
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Whicħ goddes sone / vs tolde / thurgħ his grace
That fadres sone / hatħ alle thynges wrougħ t
And al þ t wrougħ t is / wt a skilful thougħ t
The goost þ t fro the fader / gan procede
Hatħ sowled hem / wt outen any drede
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Whan he was in this world / declared heere
That þ er e was other lyf / þ er e men may wone
To whom answerde Tiburce / o Suster deere
Ne seydestow rigħ t now / in this manere
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There nas but o god / lord in sootħ fastnesse
And now of three / how maistow bere wytnesse
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Rigħ t as a man / hatħ sapiences three
Memorie / engyn / and Intellect also
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So in oo beyng / of diuinitee
Thre per sones / may there / rigħ t wel be
Tho gan she hī / ful bisily to preche
Of Cristes sone / and of his peynes teche
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How goddes sone / in this world was wt holde
To doon mankynde / pleyn remyssioū
That was I bounde / in sȳ ne / & cares colde
Al this thyng / she vn to Tiburce tolde
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Witħ valerian / to Pope vrban he wente
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He ci stned hī / and mad hī in that place
Parfyt in his lernynge / goddes knygħ t
And after this / Tiburce gat swicħ grace
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That euer y day / he sey in tyme and space
The Aungel of god / and euery maner boone
That he god axed / it was sped ful soone