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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 Shipman's Tale Folio 150v 1 of 9 folios
A Marchaunt whilom dwelled / at Seynt Denys
That riche was / for whicħ men helde hī wys
A wyf he hadde / of excellent beaute
And compaignable / and reuelous was she
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Whicħ is a thyngħ more dispence
Than wortħ is / al the chere and reuer ence
That men hem doon / at festes and at daunces
Swicħ salutacions / and countenaunces
Passen / as dotħ a shadewe vp on the wal
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But woo is hī / that paien moot for al
The sely housbond / algate he mot paie
He moot vs clothe / and he moot vs arraie
Al for his owene worshipe / richely
In whicħ array / we dauncen iolily
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Or elles lust nat / swicħ dispence endure
But thynketħ / it is wasted and I lost
Thanne moot a nother / paien for oure cost
Or lene vs gold / and that is per ilous
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This noble Marchaū t / held a worthy hous
For whicħ he hadde alday / so gret repair
For his largesse / and for his wyf was fair
That wonder is / but herkenetħ to my tale
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There was a Monk / a fair man and a bold
That euer e in oon / was drawyng
This ȝonge Monk / that was so fair of face
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Sithe that here first / knewelicħ / bygan
That in his hous / as familier was he
As it is possible / any frend to be
And for as mechel / as this goode man
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Were bothe two I borñ / in oo village
The Monk hī cleymetħ / as for cosynage
And he a geyn / he seitħ nat oones nay
But was as glad ther of / as foule of day
For to his herte / it was a gret plesaunce
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Thus ben they knyt / witħ eterne alliaunce
And eche of hem / gan other for to assure
Of bretherhede / while that here lif may dure