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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 201r 4 of 14 folios
Wostow nat how / oure mygħ ty Pi nces free
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Ben thus comaunded / and mad ordinaunce
That euer y ci sten wygħ t / shal han penaunce
But if that he / his cristendom witħ seye
And goon al quyt / if he wol it reneye
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Quod tho Cecile / and witħ a wood sentence
Ȝe make vs gilty / and is nat sootħ
For ȝe þ t knowen wel / oure Innocence
For as muche / as we doon a reuerence
To crist / and for we bere a cristene name
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Ȝe putte on vs a cryme / and eke a blame
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For ver tuous / we moun it nougħ t wt seye
Almache answerde / chees on of theise twoo
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That þ u mowe now / escapen by that weye
Gan for to laugħ e / and to the Iuge she seide
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Woltow / þ t I reneye / Innocence
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To maken me / a wykked wigħ t / quod she
Lo he dissimuletħ here / in audience
He staretħ and wodetħ / in his aduer tence
To whom Almachius seide / vnsely wrecche
Ne wostow nat / how fer my mygħ t may strecche
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Ȝa / bothe power / and auctoritee
To maken folk / to dyen or to lyuen
Why spekestow so proudly / thā ne to me
I speke nougħ t / but stedfastly quod she
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Nat proudly / for I seye as for my syde
We haten dedly / thilke vice of pride
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Thā ne wol I shewe / al openly by rigħ t
That þ u hast mad / a ful gret lesyng heere
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Thow seist / thyne pi nces / han the ȝeuen mygħ t
Bothe for to sleen / and for to quyken a wigħ t
Thow þ t ne maist / but oonly lyf byreue
Thow hast noon oother power / ne no leue
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