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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 Reeve's Tale Folio 48v 3 of 10 folios
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For that Symkyn / shulde in his blod a lye
She was I fostred / in a Nonnerye
For Symkyn nolde no wyf / as he said
But she were wel norisshed / and a mayd
To sauen his estate / of ȝemanrye
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And she was proud / and pert as a pye
A ful fair sigħ t / was it / vp on hē two
On halidayes biforñ hire / wold he go
With his typet wounde / a boute his hede
And she cam after / in a gyte of rede
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And Symkyn had hosen / of the same
There durst no wygħ t / clepen hire but dame
Was non so hardy / that went by the weye
That with hire durst rage / or ellis pleye
But if he wolde be slayn / of Symkyn
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W panade / or with knyf / or boydekyn
For ielous folk / ben per ilous euer e mo
Algate they wold / here wyues wend so
And eke for she was / somdel smoterlicħ
She was as deigne / as water in a dicħ
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So ful of hoker / and of bysmare
Hire þ ouȝt that a lady / shuld hire spare
What for hire kynrede / and hire norturye
That she had lerned / in the Nonnerye
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Of twenty ȝere / with outen ony mo
Sauyng a child / þ t was of half ȝere age
In cradel it lay / and was a pro pre page
This wenche thikke / & wel I growen was
With camuse nose / and eyen greye as glas
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W bottokes brode / and brestes rounde & heye
But rigħ t fair was hire her / I wol nat lye
In purpose was / to maken hire his eyr
Bothe of his catel / and his mesuage
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And straunge he mad it / of hire mariage
His purpos was / for to bystowen hire heye
In to som worthy blode / of Auncetrye
For holy chirche good / mot ben dispended
On holy chirche blod / that is descended
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Therfore he wolde / his holy blod honoure
Thougħ þ t he / holy chirche / shuld deuoure
With whete / and malt / of al the lond a bouteA nd namelicħ þ er e was