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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 200r 2 of 14 folios
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How manye wondres / Iħ c for hē wrougħ te
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But at the laste / to tellen short and pleyn
The sergeaū tez of the Toun of Rome / hē sougħ te
And hem / biforn Almache the per fect brougħ te
Whicħ hem opposed / and knew al here entente
And to the ymage / of Iubiter / hem sente
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Swape of his hed / this is myn sentence heere
A noon theise martirs / that I ȝow deuyse
Oon Maximë / that was an officere
Of the per fectes / and his cornyculere
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Hem hente / & whan he fortħ / the Seyntes ladde
Hī self he wepe / for pitee þ at he hadde
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He gat hī / of the Turmentours leue
And hadde hē to his hous / wt oute more
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And witħ here per chyng / er þ t it were eue
They gonnen fro the tr mentours / to reue
And fro Maxime / and fro his folk echone
The false feitħ / to trowe in god allone
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W Preestes / þ t hē cristened alle I feere
Cecile hī seide / witħ a ful stedfast cheere
Now Cristes owne knygħ tes / leeue & deere
Cast al a wey / the werkes of derknesse
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And armetħ ȝow in armes / of brigħ tnesse
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Ȝoure cours is don / ȝoure feitħ haue ȝe conserued
Gotħ to the corone of lyf / þ at may nat faile
The rigħ tful Iuge / whicħ that ȝe han serued
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Shal ȝeue it ȝow / as ȝe han it deserued
And whan this thyng / was seid / as I deuyse
Men ledde hē fortħ / to don the sacrifise
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To tellen shortly / the conclusioun
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They nolde encence / ne sacrifise rigħ t nougħ t
But on here knees / they setten hē a doun
W humble herte / and sad deuocioū
And losten bothe here heuedes / in the place
Here soules wenten / to the kyng of grace