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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 145v 15 of 16 folios
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The more is he holden / desolat
If that a Prynce / vsetħ hasardrye
In alle gouer naunce / and policye
He is / as by comune opinioū
I holde the lasse / in reputacioū
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Was sent to Corynthe / in ful gret honour
Fro lacedomye / to maken here alliance
And whan he cam / hī happed par chaunce
That alle the gretteste / that were of that lond
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Pleiyng atte hasard / he hem fond
For whicħ / as sone as it mygħ t be
He stal hī hom a geyn / to his contre
And seide / there wyl I nat lese my name
Ne wyl nat take on me / so gret defame
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Ȝow for to allie / vn to noone hasardoures
Sendetħ othere wyse / embassadoures
For by my trouthe / me were leuere dye
Than I ȝow shulde / to hasardoures allye
For ȝe that ben / so glorious in honours
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Shuln nat allye ȝow / witħ hasardours
As by my wyl / ne as be myn tretee
This wys Philosophre / thus seide he
Loke eke / that to the kyng Demetrius
The kyng of Parthe / as the boke seitħ vs
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Sent hī a peyre of dys of gold / in skorñ
For he had vsed hasard / there biforñ
For whicħ he held his glorie / or his renoū
At no value / or reputacioū
Lordes moun fynde / othere maner e pleye
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Honest I now / to dryue the day a weye
A word or two / as olde bokes trete
Gret sweryng is a thyng / abhomynable
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The heigħ god / for bad sweryng at al ¶ Nolite iurare omnino , mathei .5o.
Wytnesse on Mathew / but in special
Of sweryng seitħ / the holy Ieremye ¶ Jeremie 4o iurabis in veritate
in iudicio& iusticia
in iudicio
Thow shalt swere sotħ thyne othes / & nat lye
And swere in doom / and eke in rigħ twysnesse
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But Idel sweryng / is a cursednesse
Byholde and se / that in the first table
Of heigħ goddes hestes / honourable
How that the secund hest of hī / is this
Take nat myn name in Ydel / or amys