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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 141v 7 of 7 folios
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And after / whan hire swougħ nyng is a gon
She risetħ vp / and to hire fader seide
Blissed be god / that I shal dye a mayde
Ȝif me my detħ / er that I haue a shame
250
And witħ that word / she preietħ hī ful ofte
That witħ his swerd / he shulde smyte softe
Hire fader / witħ ful sorweful herte / and wil
255
Hir hed of smot / and by the top it hente
And to the Iuge / he gan it to per sente
And whan the Iuge it saw / as seitħ the storie
He bad to take hī / and an hange hī faste
260
But rigħ t a noon / a thousand peeple in thraste
To saue the knygħ t / for routhe and for pitee
For knowen was / this fals Iniquitee
By manere of the cherles / chalangyng
265
That it was by the assent / of Apius
They wisten wel / that he was lecherous
For whicħ / vn to this Apius they gon
And cast hī in a prisoū / rigħ t a noon
Where as he slow hī self / and Claudyus
270
That seruaū t was / vn to this Apius
Was demed for to hange / vp on a tree
But that Virginius / of his pitee
So preyed for hī / that he was exiled
And elles certes / had he ben bigyled
275
The remenaū t were an hanged / moore and lesse
That were consentant / of this cursednesse
Betħ war / for noman woot / whom god wol smyte
In no degree / ne in whicħ manere wyse
280
The worm of conscience / may a gryse
Of wykked lyf / thougħ it so pryue be
That no man wot ther of / but god and he
For be he lewed man / or elles lered
He noot how sone / that he shal ben a fered
285
Therfore I rede ȝow / this counseil take
Forsaketħ synne / er synne ȝow forsake
There are two crosses in dry point at the end of the folio. One perhaps refering to the rubric.ODR