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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 Physician's Tale Folio 138v 1 of 7 folios
Thow art a Squyer / and he is a knygħ t
But Corrected from: f<nothing> f god forbede / for his blisful mygħ t
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But if a Clerk / coude doon a gentil dede
As wel as any of ȝow / it is no drede
As thow rigħ t now / were cropen out of the ground
Ne neuer e er now / ne haddest knowen me
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For Sire / I wol nat take / a peny of the
For al my craft / ne nougħ t for my trauaille
Thow hast I paid wel / for my vitaille
It is I now / and farewel haue good day
And toke his hors / & fortħ he gotħ his wey
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Lordynges this questioū / than wil I axe now
Whicħ was the moost free / as thynketħ ȝow
Now telletħ me / or that ȝe ferthere wende
Here endetħ the Frankeleyns tale ;
Phisiciens tale / wit
There was as telletħ / Titus Liuius
A knygħ t / that called was Virginius
Fulfild of honor / and of worthynesse
And strong of frendes / and of gret richesse
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This knygħ t a dougħ ter hadde / by his wyf
No children hadde he moo / in al his lyf
Fair was this mayde / in excellent beautee
A bouen euer y wygħ t / that man may se
For nature hatħ / witħ souer eyne diligence
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Thus kan I forme / and peynte a creature
Whan that me list / who kan me countrefete
Pigmalion nougħ t / thougħ he ay forge and bete ¶ Quere in Methamorphosios
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Or graue / or peynte / for I dar wel seyn
Appelles zanzis / shulde werche in veyn ¶ Appelles fecit mirabile opus
in tumulo darij. vide in Alex-
andri. libro. 6o. de zanze. in libro Tullij
in tumulo darij. vide in Alex-
andri. libro. 6o. de zanze. in libro Tullij
Outher to graue / or peynte / or forge / or bete
For he that is / the fourmere principal
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Hatħ maked me / his vicaire general
To forme / and peynten / erthely creaturis
Rigħ t as me list / and ecħ thyng in my cure ix
Vnder the Moone / that may wane and waxe