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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 200v 3 of 14 folios
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Witħ pitous teeres / tolde it a noon rigħ t
That he here soules saw / to heuene glide
Witħ Aungeles / ful of cleernesse / and of ligħ t
And witħ his word / conuer ted many a wygħ t
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For whicħ / Almachius / dide hī so to bete
W whippe of leed / til he his lyf gan lete
Cecile hī took / and buried hī a noon
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By Tiburce / and valerian softly
W Inne hire buriynge place / vnder the stoon
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Bad hise Mynystres / fecchen openly
Cecile / so þ t she mygħ te / in his per sence
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Wepten ful sore / and ȝauen ful credence
Vn to hire word / and cryden moore & moore
Crist goddes sone / wt outen difference
Is verray god / this is al oure sentence
That hatħ so good a ser uaū t / hī to serue
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This / witħ o vois / we trowen / thougħ we sterue
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Bad fecchen Cecile / þ t he mygħ te hire se
And alderfiirst lo / this was his axynge
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What maner wō man / artow quod he
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I am a gentil wō man / borñ / quod she
I axe the quod he / thougħ it the greeue
Of thy religion / and of thy byleue
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Quod she / þ t woldest two answeres cō clude
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In oo demaunde / ȝe axed lewedly
Almache answerde / vn to þ t similitude
Of whē nes cometħ / thyn answeryng so rude
Of whennes quod she / whan þ t she was freyned
Of Conscience / and of good feitħ vnfeyned
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Of my power / and she answerde hī this
Ȝoure mygħ t quod she / ful litel is to drede
For euer y mortal mā nes power / nys
But like a bladdre / ful of wynd I wys
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For wt a nedles poynt / whan it is blowe
May al the boost of it / be leid ful lowe
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