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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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Late se now / if this place may suffice
Or make it roume / with speche / as is ȝoure gyse
Ay is thow mery / and þ at is feir answerd
I haue herd sey / men sal ta / of twa thynges
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Slike as he fyndes / or ta slike as he brynges
But specialy / I pray the Host dere
Gar vs haue mete and drynk / & make vs chere
And we sal paie trewely / at the fulle
With empty hand / men moun na haukes tulle
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Lo here oure siluer / redy for to spende
For ale and brede / and rosted hem a goos
And bond here hors / it shulde nomore go loos
And in his owen chaumbre / hem mad a bed
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With shetes / and with chalons / faire I spred
Nat fro his owen bed / ten fote or twelue
His dougħ ter had a bed / al by hire selue
Right in þ e same chaumbre / by and by
It mygħ t be no bet / and cause why
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There was no roumere herberwe / in the place
They soupen / and they speken of solace
And drynken euer e strong ale / at the best
Aboute mydnygħ t / went they to rest
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Ful pale he was / for dronke / and nat rede
He ȝesketħ / and he speketh thorugħ the nose
As he were on the quak / or on the pose
To bedde he goth / & with hī goth his wyf
As ony Iay / she ligħ t was and iolyf
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So was hire ioly whistel / wel I wette
The cradel at hire beddes fete / is shette
To rokken / and to ȝeue the child souke
And whan þ t dronken al was / in the crouke
To bedde went the dougħ ter / rigħ t a non
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To bedde goth Aleyn / and also Ioħ n
There was nomore / hē nedetħ no dwale
This Millere hath so wysely / bybed ale
That as an hors / he snorteth in his slepe
Ne of his tayl behynde / he toke no kepe
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His wyf bar hī a burdon / a ful strong
Men mygħ t here routyng heren / a furlong
The wenche routed eke / par compaignye
He poked Ioħ n / and seide slepes thow
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Herd thow euer e slike a sang / or now