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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 147r 3 of 16 folios
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Allas whan shuln myne bones / ben at reste
Moder witħ ȝow / wolde I chaunge my cheste
That in my chaumbre / longe tyme hatħ be
Ȝa for an heire clout / to wrappe Inne me
But ȝet to me / she wol nat do that grace
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For whicħ ful pale / and welked is my face
But sires to ȝow / it is no curteisie
To speken to an olde man / veleynye
But he trespace in word / or elles in dede
In holy wryt / ȝe moun ȝoure self wel rede
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A geyns an olde man / hoor vp on his hed ¶ Coram canute capite consurge
Ȝe shulde a ryse / wherfore I ȝeue ȝow red
Ne dotħ vn to an old man / noon harm now
Nomore than that ȝe wolde / a man dide ȝow
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And god be witħ ȝow / where ȝe go or ryde
Nay olde cherl by god / thow shalt nat so
Seide this other hasardour / a noon
Thow partest nat so ligħ tly / by Seynt Ioħ n
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Thow spake rigħ t now / of thilke traytour detħ
That in this contre / alle oure frendes sletħ
Haue heere my trouthe / as thow art his espie
Telle where he is / or thow shalt it a bye
By god / and by the holy sacrement
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For sotħ ly thow art / on of his assent
To slen vs ȝonge folk / thow false thef
Now sires qd he / if that ȝow be so lef
To fynde detħ / turne vp / this croked wey
For in that Groue / I lefte hī be my fey
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Vnder a tree / and there he wol a byde
Nat for ȝoure bost / he wol hi no thyng hyde
Se ȝe that Oke / rigħ t there ȝe shuln hī fynde
God saue ȝow / that bougħ t a geyn man kynde
And ȝow amende / thus seide this olde man
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And euer icħ of theise riotours / ran
Til he come to that tree / and there fey found
Of floreyns fyn / of gold I koyned round
Wel ny an eigħ te Busshels / as hem thougħ t
No lengere thā ne / after detħ they sougħ t
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But ecħ of hem / so glad was of the sigħ t
For that the floreyns / ben so faire and brigħ t