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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 152r 4 of 9 folios
For on my Portos / I make an otħ
That neuer e in my lyf / for lief ne lootħ
Ne shal I of no counseile / ȝow bewreye
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By god and by this Portos / I swere
Thougħ men me wolde / al in peces tere
Ne shal I neuer e / for to gon to helle
Bywreye a word / of thyng that ȝe me telle
Nougħ t for no Cosynage / ne alliaunce
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But verrayly for loue / and affiaunce
And eche of hem / told other what hem liste
Cosyn quod she / if that I hadde a space
As I haue noon / and / namely in this place
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Thā ne wolde I telle / a legende of my lif
What I haue suffred / sithe I was a wyf
Witħ myn housbonde / al be he ȝoure Cosyn
He is no more / Cosyn vn to me
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Than is this lef / that hangetħ on the tre
To han the more cause / of aqueyntaunce
Of ȝow / whicħ I haue loued specialy
A bouen alle wommen / sikerly
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This swere I Corrected from: nowȝown ȝow / on my professioun
Telletħ ȝoure grief / lest that he come a doun
Ful lief were me / this counseil for to hide
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But out it mot / I may no lengere a bide
Myn husbonde is to me / the werst man
That euer e was / sithe that the world bygan
But sithe I am a wif / it syt nat me
To tellen no wygħ t / of oure pryuyte
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Neither a bedde / ne in noon other place
God shilde I shulde it telle / for his grace
A wif ne shal nat seyn / of hire housbonde
But al honour / as I can vnderstonde
Saue vn to ȝow / thus meche I tellen shal
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As helpe me god / he is nougħ t wortħ at al
In no degree / the value of a flye
But ȝet me greuetħ moste / his nygardye
And wel ȝe wot / that wō men naturely