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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 154r 8 of 9 folios
To Seynt Denys / I comen is Daun Ioħ n
Witħ crovne and berd al fressħ / and newe I shaue
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In al the hous / there nas so litel a knaue
Ne no wigħ t elles / that he nas ful fayne
That my lord Daun Ioħ n / was come a gayne
This faire wyf a corded / witħ Daun Ioħ n
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That for this hondred frankes / he shulde al nygħ t
Haue hire in hise armes / bolt vp rigħ t
And this a cord / par formed was in dede
Til it was day / that Daun Ioħ n went his way
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And bad the meyne / fare wel haue good day
For noon of hem / ne no wigħ t in the toun
Hatħ of Daun Ioħ n / rigħ t no suspeccioun
Or where hī list / nomore of hī I seye
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To Seynt Denys / he gan for to repeire
And witħ his wyf / he maketħ feste and chere
And telletħ hire / that chaffare is so dere
That nedes must he make / a cheuysaunce
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For he was bounde / in a reconysaunce
To paie twenty thousand sheldes / a noon
For whicħ this Marchaū t / is to Parys gon
To borwe of certeyne frendes / that he hadde
A certeyne frankes / & some witħ hī he ladde
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And whan that he was come / in to the Toun
For gret chierte / and gret affeccioū
Vn to Daun Ioħ n / he first gotħ hī to pleye
Nat for to axe / or borwe of hī moneye
But for to wyte / and sen of his welfare
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And for to tellen hī / of his chaffare
How he had wel I bougħ t / and ga ciously
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Thanked by god / al hool his marchandise
Saue that he must / in al manere of wyse
Maken a cheuysaū ce / as for his beste
And thanne he shulde / ben in ioye & reste