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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 157v 4 of 4 folios
Ȝaf in hire thougħ t / witħ Inne a litel space
That in that place / after hire sone she criede
Where as he was casten / in a pyt byside
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By moutħ of Innocentes / lo here thy mygħ t
This gē me of chastite / this Emeraude
And eke of Martirdom / the rubie brygħ t
There he witħ throte / I koruen / lay vprigħ t
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He Alma redemptoris / gan to synge
So loude / that al the place / gan to rynge
In comen / for to wondre vp oon this thyng
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He com a noon / witħ outen tariyng
And herietħ ci st / that is of heuene kyng
And eke his moder / honour of mankynde
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Vp taken was / syngyng his song alwey ¶ De puero qui cantauit de
gloriosa virgine;
gloriosa virgine;
And witħ the honour / of gret processioū
They carien hī / vn to the next abbey
His moder swougħ nyng / by his bere lay
Vn ethe mygħ t the peeple / that was there
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This newe Rachel / bryngen froo his bere ¶ De maria quicquit sciuit , puer
cantum enutriuit , maternam inopiam //
hunc Judeus nequam strauit , domo sua
quem humauit , diram per inuidiam,,
Mater querens , hunc vocauit,
hic in terra recantauit , solita
preconia ,, Puer liber mox exiuit,
mortis reos lex puniuit , Ju-
deos& ceteraß
cantum enutriuit , maternam inopiam //
hunc Judeus nequam strauit , domo sua
quem humauit , diram per inuidiam,,
Mater querens , hunc vocauit,
hic in terra recantauit , solita
preconia ,, Puer liber mox exiuit,
mortis reos lex puniuit , Ju-
deos
This Prouest / dotħ the Iewes for to sterue
That of this morder wist / & that a noon
He nolde no swicħ cursednesse / obserue
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Iuel shal haue / that euel wol deserue
Therfore wt wilde hors / he dede hē drawe
And after that / he heng hē by the lawe
Biforñ the chef auter / while the masse laste
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And after that / the Abbot wt his couent
Han sped hem / to burien hī ful faste
And whan they halywater / on hī kaste
Ȝet spak this child / whan spreynt was the haliwater
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As monkes ben / or elles ougħ ten be
This ȝonge child / to cō iure he bigan
And seide / o dere child / I halse the
In vertu / of the holy Trynyte