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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 Pardoner's Prologue & Tale Folio 142r 1 of 16 folios
Oure hoost bygan to swere / as he were wood
The prologue begins without incipit or an indication to its inclusion on fol. 142r.ODR
Harrowe qd he / by nayles and by blood
This was a fals cherl / a fals Iustise
As shameful deetħ / as herte kan deuyse
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Come to theise Iuges / and here Aduocates
Algate this sely mayde / is slayn / allas
Wherfore I seye alday / that men moun se
That ȝiftes of fortune / and of nature
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Ben cause of deetħ / to many a creature
Of bothe ȝiftes / that I speke of now
Men han ful ofte / more for harm than prow
This is a pitous tale / for to heere
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But nathelees / passe ouer / is no fors
And eke thyne vrynals / and thyne Iurdones
Thyn Ypocras / and eke thy Galiones
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God blisse hē / and oure lady Seynt Marie
So mote I then / thow art a propre man
And lyke a prelat / by Seynt Ronyan
Seyde I nat wel / I kan nat speke in ter me
But wel I woot / thow doost myn herte to erme
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That I almost haue caugħ t / a Cardynacle
By Corpus bones / but I haue tryacle
Or elles a draugħ t of moiste / and corny ale
Or but I heere a noon / a murie tale
Myn herte is loste / for pitee of this mayde
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Thow beal amy / thow Pardoner he sayde
Telle vs sum myrthe / of Iapes rigħ t a noon
But first qd he / heere at this Ale stake
I wol bothe drynke and eten / of a Cake
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But rigħ t a noon / theise gentils gonne to crie
Nay lat hī nat Corrected from: tl<nothing> tl telle vs / of no ribaudie
Telle vs som moral thyng / that we may lere
Som wyt / and thanne wol we gladly heere
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Vp on som honest thyng / whil that I drynke