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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 154v 9 of 9 folios
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That ȝe in hele / ar comen hom a geyn
And if that I were riche / as haue I blisse
Of twenty thousand sheldes / shuld ȝe nat mysse
For ȝe so kyndely / this other day
Lent me gold / and as I can and may
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I thanke ȝow by god / and by Seynt Iame
But nathelees / I toke vn to oure dame
Ȝoure wyf at hom / the same gold a geyn
Vp on ȝoure benche / she wot it wel certeyn
By certeyn tokenes / that I can ȝow telle
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Now by ȝoure leeue / I may no lengere dwelle
Oure Abbot wyl out / of this toun a noon
Grete wel oure dame / mȳ owne nece swete
And fare wel dere Cosyn / til we mete
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This Marchaū t / whicħ that was / ful war & wys
Creaunced hatħ / and paied eke in Parys
To certeyn lumbardes / redy in here hond
The sō me of gold / and gat of hem his bond ¶ id est obligacionem
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For wel he knew / he stod in swicħ array
That nedes must he wȳ ne / in that viage
A thousand frankes / a boue al his costage
His wyf ful redy mette hī / atte gate
As she was wont / of olde vsage algate
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And al that nygħ t / in myrthe they ben sette
For he was riche / and clerely out of dette
His wyf al newe / and kist hire on hire face
And vp he gotħ / and maketħ it ful tougħ
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Nomore quod she / by god ȝe han I now
Til atte laste / this Marchaunt seide
By god quod he / I am a litel wrotħ
Witħ ȝow my wyf / al thougħ it me be lotħ
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And wot ȝe why / by god as that I gesse
That ȝe han made / a maner e straungenesse
Bitwixen me / and my Cosyn / Daun Ioħ n
Ȝe shulde han warned me / or I had gon
That he ȝow hadde / an hondred frankes paid
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By redy tokene / and held hī euele Corrected from: <nothing> aapaid
For that I to hī spak / of cheuysaunce
Me semed so / as by his countenaunce
But nathelees / by god / oure heuene kyng