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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 146v 2 of 16 folios
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Bothe man and wō man / child / hyne / and page
I trowe / his habitacioū be there
To ben a vysed / gret wysdom it were
Or that he dede a man / a deshonour
Ȝa goddis armes / quod this riotour
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I make a vow / to goddes digne bones
Herkenetħ felawes / we thre ben alle oones
Lat eche of vs / hold vp his hand to other
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And eche of vs / bycome others brother
He shal be slayn / he that so manye sletħ
By goddes dignite / or it be nygħ t
To gyderes han theise thre / here trougħ thes pligħ t
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To lyue and dyen / eche of hem for other
As thougħ he were / his owne I bore brother
And fortħ they gon / towardes that vilage
Of whicħ the Tauer nere / had spoke biforñ
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And Cristes blissed body / they to rent
Rigħ t as they wolde / han treden ouer a stile
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An olde man / and a pore wigħ t / hē mette
This olde man / ful mekely hem grette
The proudest / of theise riotoures thre
Answerde a geyn / what karle witħ sory grace
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Why artow al for wrapped / saue thy face
Why lyuest thow so longe / in so gret age
This olde man gan loke / in his visage
And seide thus / for I ne can nat fynde
A man / thougħ that I walked in to Ynde
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Neither in Citee / ne in no vilage
That wolde chaunge his ȝouthe / for myn age
And therfore mote I / han myn age stille
Ne detħ allas / ne wol nat han my lyf
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Thus walke I / like a restles caytif
And on the ground / whicħ is my modres gate
I knokke witħ my staf / bothe erly and late