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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 144v 13 of 16 folios
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For whil that Adam fasted / as I rede ¶ Jeronimus contra Jouinianum / Quam diu
ieiunauit Adam /in paradiso
fuit , comedit& amp; eiectus est
statim duxit vxorem
ieiunauit Adam /in paradiso
fuit , comedit
statim duxit vxorem
He was in Paradys / and whan that he
Ete of the fruyt / defended / on a tree
A noon he was out cast / to woo & peyne
O glotonye / on the wel ougħ t vs pleyne
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Folwen of excesse / and of glotonyes
He wolde ben / the more mesurable
Of his diete / sittyng at his table
Allas the shorte throte / the tendre moutħ
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Maketħ that Est and West / and Nortħ & Soutħ
In Erthe in Eyr in water / man to Swynke
To gete a gloton / deyntee mete and drynke
Of this matere / o Poule / wel kanstow trete
Mete vn to wombe / & wombe eke vn to mete ¶ Esca ventri & venter escis
deus autem& hunc & illam
destruet;
deus autem
destruet;
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Shal god destroyen bothe / as Paulus seitħ
Allas / a foul thyng is it / by my feitħ
To seye this worde / and foulere is the dede
Whan man so drynketħ / of the white and rede
That of his throte / he maketħ his pryuee
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Thurgħ thilke cursed / super fluitee
The Apostle wepyng / seitħ ful pitously ¶ Ad philipenses capitulo.3o.
There walken manye / of whicħ ȝow told haue I
There ben enmys / of Cristes crois
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Of whicħ the ende is detħ / wombe is here god
O wombe o bely / o stynkyng Cod
Fulfild of donge / and of corrupcioun
At either ende of thee / foule is the soun
How gret labour and cost / is the to fynde
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Theise Cookes / how they stampe & streyne & grynde
To tornen substaunce / in to Accident
To fulfille / al thy lykerous talent
Out of the harde bones / knokke they
The mary / for they caste nougħ t a wey
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That may goo thurgħ the golet / softe and swote
Of Spicerie / of leef of bark and roote
Shal ben his sause / I maked be delyt
To maken hī ȝet / a newere appetit
But certes / he that hauntetħ swicħ delices ¶ Qui autem in delicijs est viuens
mortuus est;
Luxuriosa res vinum& contu-
meliosa ebrietas
mortuus est;
Luxuriosa res vinum
meliosa ebrietas
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Is ful of stryuyng / and of wrecchednesse
O dronke man / disfigured is thy face
Sour is thy bretħ / foul artow to embraceAnd thurgħ thy dronke nose :