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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 51r 8 of 10 folios
A wylde fyr / on theire bodies falle
Wha herd euer e / slike a ferly thyng
Ȝe they sal haue / the flour of euele endyng
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This lang nygħ t / ne tydes me na rest
But ȝet na force / al sal be for the best
For Ioħ n seide he / as euer e mot I thryue
If þ at I may / ȝone lasse wol I swyue
Som easement / has lawe shapen vs
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For Ioħ n there is a lawe / that seith thus
That gyf a man / in a poynt be greued
That in a nother / he shal bereleued
Oure corn is stolen / sothly it is na nay
And we han had / an ylle fyt this day
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And syn I sal haue / nan amendement
Agayn my losse / I wyl haue an easement
By goddes saule / it sal nan other be
The Millere is a per lious man / he seide
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And gyf that he / ouȝt of his slepe breyde
He mygħ t do vs bathe / a velanye
Aleyn answered / I counte hī nat a flye
Vp he rist / and by the wenche he crepte
This wenche lay vp rigħ t / & faste slepte
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Til he so ny was / er she mygħ t a spye
That it had ben to late / for to crye
And shortly for to seyn / they were at on
Now pley Aleyn / for I wyl speke of Ioħ n
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And to hī self / he maketh reuthe and woo
Allas qd he / this is / a wykked Iape
Now may I sey / that I is but an Ape
Ȝet has my felawe / somwhat for his harm
He has the Milleres dougħ ter / in his arm
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He auntred hī / and has his nedes spedde
And I ly as a drafsakke / in my bedde
And whan this iape / is tald another day
I sal behalden a daffe / a Cokenay
I wyl aryse / and auntre it be my feitħ
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Vnhardy / is vnsely / thus men seitħ
And vp he roos / and softly he went
Vn to the cradel / and in his hand it hent
And bar it softe / vn to his beddes fete
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And gan a wake / and went hire ouȝt to pisse