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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 139v 3 of 7 folios
Whicħ is ful per ilous / and hatħ be ȝoore
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For al to sone / moun they lerne loore
Of boldnesse / whan she woxen is a wyf
That lordes dougħ tres / han in gouer naunce
Ne taketħ of my wordes / no displesaunce
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Thenketħ that ȝe ben set / in gouernynges
Of lordes dougħ tres / oonly for two thynges
Outher for ȝe han kept / ȝoure honeste
Or elles ȝe han falle / in freelete
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And han forsaken fully / swicħ meschaunce
For euer e moo / therfore for cristes sake
To teche hem vertu / loke that ȝe ne slake
His likerousnesse / and al his olde craft
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Kan kepe a forest / best of any man
Now kepetħ wel / for if ȝe wole ȝe kan
Loke wel that ȝe / vn to no vice assente
Leest ȝe be dampned / for ȝowre wykke entente
For who so dotħ / a traytour is certeyn
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And taketħ kepe / of that that I shal seyn
Of alle tresoū / souer ayn pestilence
Is whan a wygħ t bitraisetħ / Innocence
Ȝe fadres and ȝe modres / eke also
Thougħ ȝe han children / be it on or moo
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Ȝoure is the charge / of al hir sr ueaū ce
Whil that they ben / vnder ȝoure gouer naunce
Betħ war / if be ensaumple of ȝoure lyuynge
Or by ȝoure necligence / in chastisynge
That they per isshe / for I dar wel seye
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If that they doon / ȝe shul it deere a beye
Vnder a Shepherde / soft and necligent
The wolf / hatħ many a sheep and lamb to rent
Suffisetħ on ensample / now as heere
For I moot turne a geyn / to my matere
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So kept hir self / hir neded no Maistresse
For in hir lyuyng / maydens mygħ ten rede
As in a book / euer y good word / or dede
That longetħ to a mayden / vertuous
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She was so prudent / and so bountevous
For whicħ the fame out sprong / on euer y syde