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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 148v 6 of 16 folios
In al this world / there is no creature
That ete or dronke hatħ / of this confiture
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Nat but the mountaunce / of a corñ of whete
That he ne shal / his lyf / a non for lete
Ȝa sterue he shal / and that in lasse while
Than thow wolt gon a pase / nat but amyle
The poysoū is so strong / and violent
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This cursed man / hatħ in his hand I hent
This poysoū in a box / and sithe he ran
In to the next strete / vn to a man
And borwed hī / large botelles thre
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The thridde he kept clene / for his drynke
For al the nygħ t / he shope hī for to swynke
In cariyng of the gold / out of that place
And whan this Riotour / witħ sory grace
Had filled witħ wyn / hise grete botelles thre
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To hise felawes / a geyn repairetħ he
What nedetħ it / to Sermone of it more
For rigħ t as they had cast / his detħ bifore
Rigħ t so they han hi slayn / and that a noon
And whan that this was don / thus spak that oon
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Now late vs sitte and drynke / and make vs merie
And afterward / we wyln his body berie
And witħ that word / it happed hi par caas
To take the botel / there the poysoū was
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For whicħ a noon / they storuen bothe two
But certes I suppose / that Auycen
Wroot neuer e in no canou / ne in no fen
Moo wonder signes / of empoysonyng
Than hadde theise wrecches two / or here endyng
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Thus ended ben / theise homycydes twoo
And eke the false empoysonere / also
O cursed synne / of alle cursednesse
O . traytours homycyde / O wykkednesse
O glotonye / luxurie / and hasardye
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Thow blasfemour / of crist / witħ vilenye
And othes grete / of vsage and of pride
That to thy creature / whicħ that the wrougħ te