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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 52r 10 of 10 folios
For cristes soule / and here a noble game
For by that lord / that called is Seynt Iame
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As I haue thries / in this short nygħ t
Swyued the Milleres dougħ ter / bolt vp rigħ t
While thow hast / as a coward / ben a gast
A fals ta ytour / fals Clerk qd he
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Thow shalt be ded / by goddis dignyte
Who durst be so bold / to dispar age
My dougħ ter þ t is come / of swicħ lynage
And by the throte bolle / he caugħ t Aleyn
And he hent hī / dispetously a geyn
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And on the nose / he smot hī with his fist
Doun ran the blody strem / vp on his brest
And in the flore / wt nose & moutħ to broke
They walwen / as don / tweyne pygges in a poke
And vp they gon / and doun a geyn a non
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Til þ t the Millere / spurned at a ston
And doun he fel bakward / vp on his wyf
That wyst no thyng / of this nyce stryf
For she was falle a slepe / a litel wygħ t
W Ioħ n the Clerk / that waked had al nygħ t
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And with the fal / out of hire slepe she breyde
Help holy croys of Bromholme / she seide
In manus tuas / lord to the I calle
A wake Symkyn / the fend is on me falle
Myn hert is broken / help I nam but dede
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There lith vp on my wombe / & on myn hede
Help Symkyn / for the fals Clerkes figħ t
And gropeth by the walles / to and fro
To fynde a staf / and she stert vp also
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And knew the estres / bet þ ā ne dide this Ioħ n
And by the wal / a staf she fond a non
And saw a litel slemeryng / of a ligħ t
For at an hole / in shon the Mone brigħ t
And by þ at ligħ t / she saw hē bothe two
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But sekerly she nyst / who was who
But as she saw / a whit þ ing in hire eye
And whan she gan / this white þ ing aspie
She wende the Clerk / had wered a volupere
And with the staf / she drow ay nere & nere
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And wend han hit / this Aleyn at the fulle
And smot the Millere / on the pyled skulle