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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 152v 5 of 9 folios
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They wolden that here / housbondes / shulden be
Hardy and wyse / and riche / and ther to free
And buxome vn to his wyf / and fressħ a bedde
But by that ilke lord / that for vs bledde
For his honour / my self for to arraye
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Ȝet were me leuere / that I were vnborñ
Than me were don a sclaundre / or vyleynye
And if myn housbonde eke / mygħ t it espie
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I nere but lost / and therfore I ȝow preye
Lene me this sō me / or elles mot I deye
Parde / I wyl nougħ t fayle ȝow / my thankes
If that ȝow list / to don that I ȝow preye
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For at a certeyn day / I wol ȝow paye
That I may don / rigħ t as ȝow list deuyse
As foul as euer e had / Geneloū of Fraunce
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Now trewely / myn owen lady deere
I haue qd he on ȝow / so gret a routhe
That I ȝow swere / & pligħ t ȝow my trouthe
That whan ȝoure housbonde / is to flaundrez fare
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I wol delyuere ȝow / out of this care
For I wol brynge ȝow / an hondred Frankes
And witħ that word / he caugħ t hire by the flankes
Gotħ now ȝoure wey qd he / al stille and soft
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And lat vs dyne / as sone as that ȝe may
For by my Chilyndre / it is pi me of day
Gotħ now & betħ as trewe / as I shal be
And fortħ she gotħ / as Ioly as a Pie
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And bad the Cokes / that they shulde hē hye
So that men mygħ t dyne / and that a noon
Vp to hire housbonde / is this wyf I gon
Who is there quod he / Petir it am I ¶ qy la
Qy la is written alongside the paragraph mark in the left margin.Est
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Quod she / what sire how longe wol ȝe faste
How longe tyme / wil ȝe rekne and caste
Ȝoure sō mes / & ȝoure bokes / & ȝoure thynges
The deuele haue part / on alle swicħ rekenynges
Ȝe han I now parde / of goddis sonde