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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 51v 9 of 10 folios
Allas qd she / I had almost mysgoū
I had almost gon / to the Clerkes bedde
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Ey bñ dicite / than had I foule spedde
And fortħ she goth / til she the cradil fonde
She gropeth alwey / ferthere with hire honde
And fond the bed / and þ ouȝt nat but good
By cause that the cradil / by it stod
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And nyst where she was / for it was derke
And faire & wele / she crepte in by the clerke
And lith ful stille / and wold han caugħ t a slepe
W Inne a while / this Ioħ n the Clerk vp lepe
And on this goode wyf / he leyd on sore
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So mery a fit / ne had she nat ful ȝore
He pryketh hard / and depe / as he were mad
This ioly lyf / han theise two Clerkes lad
Til þ at the .iij. Cok / bygan to syng
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For he had swonken / al the long nygħ t
And seide / fare wel Malkyn / swete wygħ t
The day is come / I may no lengere byde
But euer e more / where so I go or ryde
I is thyn owen Clerk / so haue I seele
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But er thow go / o thyng I wyl the telle
Whan that þ u wendest homward / by the Mille
Rigħ t at the entre / of the dore behynde
Thow shalt a cake / of a busshel fynde
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That was I maked / of thyn owen Mele
Whicħ þ at I halpe / my sire for to stele
And good lemman / god the saue & kepe
And with that word / almost he gan to wepe
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I wyl go crepe in / be my felawe
And fond the cradil / at his hand a non
By god qd he / al wrang I had mysgon
Myn hed is toty / of my swynk to nygħ t
That makes me / that I go nat Corrected from: <nothing> aa rigħ t
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I wat wel by the Cradel / I haue mysgaa
He lyes the Millere / and his wyf alswa
Vn to the bedde / þ er e as the Millere lay
He wend han cropen / by his felawe Ioħ n
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And by the Millere / In he crepe a non
And caugħ t hī by þ e nekke / and softe he spake