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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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To doon plesaunce / and also gret costage
He nougħ t for gat / to ȝeue the leest page
He ȝaf the lord / and sithen al his meyne
Whan that he coom / som maner e honest thyng
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For whicħ they were as glad / of his comyng
Nomore of this as now / for it suffisitħ
Shope hī / to make redy / his array
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Toward the Toun of Brugges / for to fare
To byen there / a porcioū of ware
For whicħ he hatħ / to Parys sent anon
That he shulde come / to Seynt Denys and pleye
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Er he to Brugges wente / in alle wyse
Hatħ of his Abbot / as hī list / licence
By cause he was a man / of heigħ prudence
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To sen here graunges / and here Bernes wyde
And vn to Seynt Denys / he cometħ a non
Who was so welcome / as my lord Daun Ioħ n
Oure dere Cosyn / ful of curtesie
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Witħ hī brougħ te he / a Iubbe of Maluesie
And volatil / as ay was his vsage
This Marchaū t and this Monk / a day or tweye
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And on hise nedes / sadly hī auysitħ
To rekene witħ hī self / wel may be
Of thilke ȝer / how that it witħ hī stod
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And if that he / encressed were or noon
Hise bookes / and hise bagges many oon
He leitħ biforn hī / on his countyngbord
Ful riche was his tresor / and his hord
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For whicħ ful faste / his countor dore he shette
And eke he nolde / that noman shulde hī lette
Of hise acountes / for the mene tyme