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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 49r 4 of 10 folios
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Men clepen the Soler halle / of Caumbrygge
There was here whete / & eke here malt I go unde
Seke lay the Maunciple / on a maladie
Men wenden wysly / that he shulde deye
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For whicħ this Millere / stal bothe mele & corñ
An hondred tymes more / than byforn
For there biforn / he stale but curteisly
But now he was a thef / outrageously
For whicħ the wardeyn chide / & made fare
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But þ er of sette the Millere / nougħ t a tare
He craketh bost / and swor it was nat so
That dwelleden in the halle / of whicħ I sey
Testyf they were / and lusty for to pley
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And only for here myrthe / and reuelrye
Vp on the wardeyn / besily they crye
To ȝeue hē leue / but a litel stounde
To go to Mille / and sen here corn I grounde
And hardily / they durst leyn here nekke
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The Millere shuld nat stelen hem / half a pekke
Of corñ / by sleigħ t / ne by force hē reue
And at the last / the wardeyn ȝaf hē leue
Ioħ n higħ t þ at one / & Aleyn hygħ t that other
Of on toun were they born / that higħ t Strother
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Fer in the Nortħ / I can nat telle where
This Aleyn maketh redy / al his gere
And on an hors / the sakke he caste a non
Forth goth Aleyn the Clerk / & also Ioħ n
With good swerde & bokeler / by here syde
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Ioħ n knew the weye / hem nedeth no gyde
And at the last / the sakke doun he laytħ
Aleyn spak first / al hayl Symond in faytħ
How fares thy fair dougħ ter / and thy wyf
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And Ioħ n also / how now what do ȝe here
By god qd Ioħ n / nede must / nede hatħ no pere
Hym byhoues to serue hi self / þ t has na swayn
Or ellis he is a fool / as clerkes sayn
Oure Maunciple I hope / he wol be dede
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Swa werkes ay / the wanges in his hede
And forthy is I come / & eke Alayn
To grynde oure corn / and carye mele a gayn
I pray ȝow spede vs hethen / what ȝe may