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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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Daun Ioħ n was risen / in the morwe also
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And in the Gardyn / walketħ to and froo
And hatħ hise thynges seid / ful curteisly
And hī saluetħ / as she hatħ don ofte
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A maide child / cam in hire compaignye
Whicħ as hire liste / she may gouer ne and gye
For ȝet vnder the ȝerde / was the mayde
O deere Cosyn myn / Daun Ioħ n she seyde
What eiletħ ȝow / so rathe for to rise
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Fyue houres for to slepe / vp on a nygħ t
But it were / for an old / appalled wygħ t
As ben theise wedded men / that lye and dare
As in a fourme / syt a wery hare
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Were al forstraugħ t witħ houndes grete and smale
But deere nece / why be ȝe so pale
Hatħ ȝow laboured / sitħ the nygħ t bigan
That ȝow were nede / to resten hastily
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And witħ that word / he low ful merily
Nay Cosyn myn / it stant nat so witħ me
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For by that god / that ȝaf me soule and lyf
In al the Reame of Fraunce / is there no wyf
That lasse lust hatħ / to that sory pley
For I may synge allas / and weylawey
That I was borñ / but to no wygħ t qd she
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Wherfore I thynke / out of this lond to wende
Or elles / of my self / to make an ende
So ful am I of drede / and eke of care
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And seide allas my Nece / god forbede
That ȝe for any sorwe / or any drede
For do ȝoure self / but telle me ȝoure grief
Counseile or helpe / and therfore telletħ me
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Al ȝoure anoye / for it shal ben secree