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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 146r 16 of 16 folios
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Than homicide / or many a cursed thyng
I seye / that as by ordre / thus it standitħ
This knowen they / that hise hestes vndirstonditħ
How that the secunde heest of god / is that
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And forthere ouere / I wol the telle al plat
That vengeaū ce / shal nat parten / fro his hous
That of hise othes / is to outrageous
By goddes per cious herte / and by his nayles
And by the blod of Crist / that is in hayles
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Seuene is my chaunce / and thyn synk and treye
By goddes armes / if thow falsely pleye
This dagger shal / thurgħ out thyn herte goo
This fruyt cometħ / of the becched bones two
Forsweryng / Ire / falsnesse / homycyde
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Now for the loue of Crist / that for vs dyede
Lete ȝoure othes / bothe grete and smale
But Sires / now wol I telle fortħ my tale
Longe erst or pryme rong / of any belle
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Weren set hem in a Tauer ne / to drynke
And as they sat / they herde a belle clynke
Byforñ a cors / was caried to his graue
That on of hem / gan callen to his knaue
Go bet qd he / and axe redily
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What cors is this / that passetħ heere forby
And loke that thow / reporte his name wel
Sire quod this boy / it nedetħ neuer e a del
He was parde / an olde felawe of ȝoures
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And sodeynly / he was I slayn to nygħ t
For dronke as he sat / on his benche vp rigħ t
Ther come a pryue thef / men clepen detħ
That in this contree / al the peeple sleetħ
And witħ his spere / he smot his herte a twoo
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He hatħ a thousand slayn / this pestilence
And maister or ȝe come / in his presence
Me thynketħ that it were / necessarie
For to be war / of swicħ an aduer sarie
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Betħ redy for to mete hī / euer emoore
Thus taugħ t me my dame / I sey nomore
The child seitħ sotħ / for he hatħ slayn this ȝere