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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 149r 7 of 16 folios
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Thow art so fals / and so vnkynde allas
Now goodemen / god for ȝeue ȝow ȝoure trespas
And ware ȝow fro the synne / of Auarice
Myn holy par doū / may ȝow alle waryce
So that ȝe offre nobles / or starlynges
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Or elles / siluer / broches / spones / Rynges
Bowetħ ȝoure hed / vnder this holy bulle
Come vp ȝe wyues / and offritħ of ȝoure wolle
Ȝoure names I entre / heere in my rolle a noon
In to the blisse of heuene / shuln ȝe gon
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I ȝow assoile / be myn heigħ powere
Ȝe that wyln offre / as clene and eke as clere
As ȝe were borñ / and loo sires thus I preche
So graunte ȝow / his pardoū to resseyue
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For that is best / I wol ȝow nat disseyue
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But Sires a word / forgat I in my tale
I haue Relikes / and pardoū in my male
As faire / as any man / in Engelond
Whicħ were me ȝeuen / by the Popes hond
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If any of ȝow / wol of deuocioun
Offryn / and han myn absolucioun
Come fortħ a noon / and knelitħ heere a doun
And mekely receyuetħ / myn par doun
Or elles takitħ pardoun / as ȝe wende
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Al newe and fressħ / at euer y myles ende
So that ȝe offren alwey / newe and newe
Nobles or pans / whicħ that ben goode & trewe
It is an honox / to euer ycħ that is heere
That ȝe moun haue / a suffisaunt Pardonere
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To assoile ȝow / in contre as ȝe ride
For auentures / whicħ that moun betide
Loke whicħ a seurte / is it to ȝow alle
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That I am in ȝoure felaweshipe / I falle
That may assoile ȝow / bothe more and lasse
Whan that the soule / shal fro the body passe
I rede that oure hoost / shal begynne
For he is moost envoluped / in Synne
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Come fortħ Sire hoost / and offre first a noon