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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 153v 7 of 9 folios
By twixt vs two / nedetħ no straunge fare
Fare wel Cosyn / god shilde ȝow from care
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And if that any thyng / by day or nygħ t
That ȝe me wol comaunde / in any wyse
It shal be don / rigħ t as ȝe wol deuyse
But oo thyng or that ȝe gon / if it may be
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I wolde preye ȝow / for to lene me
For certeyne bestes / that I must beye
To store witħ a place / that is oures
God helpe me so / I wolde it were ȝoures
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Nat for a thousand frankes / a myle way
But lat this thyng besecree / I ȝow preye
For ȝet to nygħ t / theise bestes mot I beye
And fare now wel / myn owen Cosyn deere
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Graunt mer cy of ȝoure cost / and of ȝoure chere
Answered and seide / o Cosyn myn / Daun Ioħ n
Now sekirly / this is a smal request
My gold is ȝoures / whan that it ȝow lest
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Take what ȝow lest / god shilde that ȝe spare
But o thyng is this / ȝe knowen it wel I now
Of chapmen / that here moneye is here plow
We moun creaunce / whil we han a name
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But goldlees for to ben / it is no game
Paie it a geyn / whan it litħ in ȝoure ese
After my mygħ t / ful fayn wyl I ȝow plese
Theise hondred frankes / he fette fortħ a noon
And pi uely he toke hem / to Daun Ioħ n
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No wigħ t in al this world / wist of this lone
Sauyng this Marchaū t / and Daun Ioħ n allone
They drynke and speke / & rome a while and pleye
Til that Daun Ioħ n / ridetħ to his Abbeye
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To Flaundres ward / his Prentys wel hi gydetħ
Til he come in to Brugges / merily
Now gotħ this Marchaū t / faste and bisily
A boute hise nedes / and byetħ and creauncetħ
He neither pleyetħ atte dees / ne dauncetħ
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But as a Marchaū t / shortly for to telle
He ledetħ his lyf / and there I lete hi dwelle