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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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Go brynge hire fortħ / and put hire in oure warde
The cherl shal han his thral / this I awarde
Thurgħ sentence / of this Iustice Apius
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Muste by force / his deere dougħ ter ȝiuen
Vn to the Iustice / in lecherye to lyuen
He gotħ hī hom / and sette hī in his halle
And leet a noon / his deere dougħ ter calle
And witħ a face deed / as asshen colde
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Vp on hire humble face / he gan biholde
Witħ fadres pitee / stikynge thurgħ his herte
Al wolde he / from his purpos nat conuer te
There ben two weyes / either detħ or shame
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That thow must suffre / allas that I was bore
For neuer e thow deseruedest / wherfore
To dyen witħ a swerd / or witħ a knyf
O deere dougħ ter / endere of my lyf
Whicħ I haue fostred vp / witħ swicħ plesaunce
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That thow were neuer e / out of myn remembraunce
O dougħ ter / whicħ that art / my laste woo
And in my lif / my laste ioye also
O gemme of chastitee / in pacience
Take thow thy detħ / for this is my sentence
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For loue / and nat for hate / thow must be ded
My pitous hand / moot smyten of thyn hed
Allas / that euer e Apius the say
Thus hatħ he falsly / Iuged the to day
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Han herd / nat nedetħ it / to telle it more
A boute his nekke / as she was wont to doo
The teeris borst out / of hire eigħ en two
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Is there no grace / is Corrected from: <nothing> þ er eþ er e no remedye
My detħ for to compleyne / a litel space
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For pardee / Iepte ȝaf his dougħ ter grace ¶ Judicum capitulo.xio. fuit illo tem-
pore Jepte Galaandes;
pore Jepte Galaandes;
For to compleyne / er he hir slow / allas
And god it woot / no thyng was hir trespas
But for she ran / hir fader first to se
To welcome hī / witħ gret solempnytee