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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 140r 4 of 7 folios
Bothe of hir beaute / and hire bounte wyde
That thurgħ that lond / they preised hir echone
That loued vertu / saue Envye allone
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That sory is / of oother mennes wele ¶ Augustinus
And glad is of his sorwe / and his vnhele
The doctor / makitħ this discripcioun
This mayde vp on a day / went in the toun
Toward a temple / witħ hir moder deere
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As is of ȝonge maydens / the manere
That gouernour was / of that Regioun
And so bifel / this Iuge / his eyen caste
Vp on this mayde / auysynge hī ful faste
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So was he caugħ t / witħ beaute of this mayde
And to hī self / ful pryuely he sayde
This mayde shal be myn / for any man
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The mayden to his purpos / wynne mygħ te
For certes by no force / ne by no mede
Hī thougħ te he was nat able / for to spede
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For she was strong of frendes / and eke she
Confermed was / in swicħ souer ayn bounte
That wel he wiste / he mygħ t hir neuer e wynne
For whicħ / by greet deliberacioun
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He sent after a cherl / was in the toun
Whicħ that he knew / for subtil and for bold
This Iuge vn to this cherl / his tale hatħ told
In secree wyse / and maad hī to ensure
He shulde telle it / to no creature
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And if he dide / he shulde leese his hed
Whan that assented was / this cursed reed
Glad was this Iuge / and maked hī gret chere
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Fro poynt to poynt / how that his lecherye
Parfourmed shulde ben / ful subtilly
As ȝe shuln heere it / after openly
This fals Iuge / that higħ t Apius
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So was his name / for this is no fable