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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
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By god rigħ t by the hoper / wyl I stand
Quod Ioħ n / and se how the corn gas In
Ȝet saw I neuer e / be my fader kyn
How that the hoper / wagges tyl and fra
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Aleyn answered / Ioħ n wylt thow swa
Than wyl I be by nethe / be my croun
And se how that the mele / falles doun
In tyl the trow / that shal be myn disport
For Ioħ n in faith / I may be of ȝoure sort
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I is as ille a Myllere / as ar ȝe
And thougħ t / al this nys / but for a wyle
They wene þ t noman / may hē begyle
But be my thrift / ȝet shal I blere here eye
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For al the sleigħ t / in here philosophie
The more queynt crekes / that they make
The more wol I stele / whan I take
In stede of flour / ȝet wol I ȝeue hē bren
The grettest Clerkes / be nat the wysest men
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As whilom to the wolf / thus spak the Mare
Of al here art / counte I nat a tare
Ouȝt at the dore / he goth ful preuyly
Whan þ at he saugħ his tyme / softly
He loketħ vp and doun / til he had found
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The Clerkes hors / there as it stod I bound
Behynde the Mylle / vnder a lefselle
And to the hors / he goth hī faire & wele
And strepeth of the brydel / rigħ t a non
And whan the hors was loos / he begynnetħ to gon
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Toward the fen / there wylde Mares renne
And forth with we he / thorugħ thikke & thenne
But doth his note / & witħ the Clerkes pleyd
Til that here corn / was faire & wel I go unde
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And whan the Mele is sakked / & I bounde
This Ioħ n gotħ ouȝt / and fynt his hors a wey
And gan to crye herrowe / and weylawey
Oure hors is lost / Aleyn for goddes banes
Stepe on thy fete / come of man al at anes
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Allas oure wardeyn / has his palfrey lorn
This Aleyn / al forgat / bothe Mele and corn
Al was oute of his mynde / his husbondrye
What whilk weye is he gan / he gan crye