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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 Prioress' Tale Folio 156v 2 of 4 folios
For he so ȝong / to criste dide reuerence
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As he sat in the scole / at his prymer
He Alma redemptoris / herde synge
And as he durste / he drow hī ner & ner
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Til he the first vers coude / al by rote
For he so ȝong / and tendre was of age
But on a day / his felawe gan he preye
To expounden hi this song / in his langage
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Or telle hi why this song / was in vsage
This preyed he hī / to construen and declare
Ful ofte tyme / vp oon his knees bare
Answered hi thus / this song I haue herd seye
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Was maked / of oure blisseful lady free
Hire to salue / and eke hire for to preye
To ben oure help / and socour whan we deye
I can nomore expounde / in this matere
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And is this song / maked in reuerence
Of cristes moder / seide this Innocent
Now certes / I wol do my diligence
To conne it al / or cristemasse be went
Thougħ that I / for my pi mer / shal be shent
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And shal be betyn / thries in an houre
I wol it conne / oure lady for to honoure
Fro day to day / til he coude it by rote
And thā ne / he song it wel / and boldly
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Fro word to word / a cordyng witħ the note
Twyes a day / it passed thurgħ his throte
To scoleward & homward / whan he wente
On Cristes moder / set was his entente
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This litel child / as he come to and froo
Ful myrily wold he synge / and crie
O Alma redemptoris / euer e moo
The swetnesse his herte / perced so
Of cristes moder / that to hire to preye
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He can nat stynt / of syngynge by the weye
That hatħ in Iewes herte / his waspes nest