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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
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My lord and I / ben ful of oon accord
So do I / alle myne othere / creatures
What colour that they han / or what figures
Thus semetħ me / that nature wolde seye
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This mayde of age / twelue ȝer was and tweye
In whicħ that nature / hadde swicħ delit
For rigħ t as she kan peynte / a lilye whit
And reed as Rose / rigħ t witħ swicħ peynture
She peynted hatħ / this noble creature
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Er she were borñ / vp oon hire lymes free
Where as by rigħ t / swicħ coloures shulde bee
And Phebus dyed hatħ / hire tresses grete
Lyke to the stremes / of his burned hete
And if that excellent / was hir beaute
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In hire ne lakked / no condiciou
That is to preyse / as by discreciou
As wel in goost as body / chaast was she
For whicħ she floured / in virginite
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Witħ alle humylite / and abstinence
Witħ alle attemper ance / and pacience
Witħ mesure eke / of berynge and array
Thougħ she were wys Pallas / dar I seyn
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Hire facounde eke / ful wō manly and pleyn
Noo countrefeted termes / had she
To Corrected from: msemeseme &i;&i;ewys / but aftir hire degree
She spak / and alle hire wordes more & lesse
Sovnyng
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Shamefast she was / in maydens shamefastnesse
Constant in herte / and euer e in bisinesse
To dryue hir out / of ydel slogardye
Bacus had of hir moutħ / rigħ t no maistrie
For wyn and ȝouthe / dootħ Venus encrees
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As men in fyr / wol casten oille / or grees
She hatħ ful ofte tyme Syke / hir
For that she wolde fleen / the compaignye
Where likly was / to treten of folye
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As is at festes / reuels / and at daunces
That ben occasiouns / of daliaunces
Swicħ thyng
To sone rype / and bold as men moun se