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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 148r 5 of 16 folios
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What shuln we doon / what shuln we to hī seye
Shal it be counseil / seide the first shrewe
What we shuln don / and brynge it wel a boute
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That be my trouthe / I wol the nat bewreye
Now qd the first / thow woost wel we ben tweye
Loke whan that he is set / that rigħ t a noon
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And I shal ryue hī / thurgħ the sydes tweye
Whil that thow stroglest witħ hī / as in game
And witħ thy daggere / loke thow do the same
My dere frend / be twix me and the
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Than moun we bothe / oure lustes alfulfille
And thus acorded / ben theise shrewes tweye
To slen the thridde / as ȝe han herd me seye
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Ful ofte in herte / he rolletħ vp and doun
The beawte of theise Floreyns / newe and brigħ t
O lord qd he / if so were that I mygħ t
Haue al this tresour / to my self allone
There is noman / that lyuetħ vnder the trone
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Of god / that shulde lyue so merye as I
And atte the laste / the fend oure enemy
Putte in his thougħ t / that he shulde poyson beye
Witħ whicħ he mygħ t slen / his felawes tweye
For why / the fend fond hī / in swicħ lyuyng
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That he had leue / hī to sorwe bryng
For this was outrely / his ful entente
To slen hē bothe / and neuer e to repente
In to the toun / vn to a potecarie
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Som poison / that he mygħ t his rattes quelle
And eke there was a Polkat / in his hawe
That as he seide / hise capouns had I slawe
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On vermyn / that destroyed hī by nygħ t
The Potecarie answered / and thow shalt haue