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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 147v 4 of 16 folios
That doun they sette hem / by this per cious hord
The werste of hē / he spak the first word
Bretheren qd he / take kepe what that I seye
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My wyt is gret thougħ t / that I bourde and pleye
This tresour hatħ fortune / vn to vs ȝeuen
In mirthe and Ioliste / oure lif to lyuen
Ey goddes per cious dignite / who wende
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To day / that we shuld han / so fair a grace
But mygħ t this gold / be caried fro this place
Hoom to myn hous / or ellis vn to ȝoures
For wel ȝe wot / that al this gold is oures
Thanne were we / in heigħ felicite
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But trewely by day / it may nat be
Men wolde seyn / that we were theues stronge
And for oure owen tresour / don vs honge
This tresor / must I karied be / by nygħ te
As wysly and as sleigħ ly / as it mygħ te
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Wherfore I rede / that kut a mong vs alle
We drawe / and lat se / where the kut wol falle
Shal renne to Tovne / and that ful swithe
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And twoo of Corrected from: h<nothing> h vs / shal kepe ful subtily
This tresor wel / and if he wol nat tarie
Whan it is nygħ t / we wol this tresor karie
By oon assent / where as vs thynketħ best
That oon of hem / the kut brougħ t in his fist
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And bad hem drawe / and loke where it wold falle
And it fel on the ȝongest / of hem alle
And also sone / as that he was a goon
That Corrected from: oon foon ofonno fhē spak thus / vn to the other
oon of : A space marker separates these two words.ODR
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Thow knowest wel / thow art my sworñ brother
Thy profyt / wol I telle the a noon
Thow wost wel / that oure felawe is a goon
And heere is gold / and that ful gret plentee
That shal departed ben / a mong vs three
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But nathelees / if I can shape it so
That it depar ted were / a mong vs two
Had I nat doon / a frendes turn to the
That other answered / I not how that may be
He woot that the gold / is witħ vs tweye