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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
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Therfore cessetħ here iangelyng / & here wonder
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As sore wonder some / on cause of thonder
On ebbe and flode / on gossomer & on myst
And on alle thynge / til þ t the cause is wist
Thus iangle they / & demen & deuyse
Til that the kyng / gan fro the bord arise
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And ȝet ascendyng / was the bestes roial
The gentil leoū / witħ his aldiran
Whan that this tartre kyng / Cambyuscan
Ros fro his bord / there as he sat ful heye
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Bifore hī gotħ / the loude mynstralcye
Til he come to his chambre / of parementz
There as there sounen / diuer se Instrumentz
That it is like an heuene / for to here
Now dauncen lusty venus / children dere
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For in the fissħ / here lady sat ful heye
And loketħ on hem / witħ a frendlicħ eye
This noble kyng / is set vp on his Trone
This straunge knygħ t / is to hī fet ful sone
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Here is the reuel / and the Iolitee
That is nat able / a dul man to deuyse
He must han knowen loue / and his seruyse
And ben a feestlicħ man / as fressħ as May
That shulde ȝow deuysen / swicħ a ray
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Who coude telle ȝow / the for rme of daunces
So vncoutħ / and swicħ fressħ countenaunces
Swicħ subtil lokyng / and dissimulynges
For drede / of gelous mē nes aparceyuynges
Noman but launcelot / and he is ded
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Therfore I passe / of al this lustied
I sey nomore / but in this Iolynesse
I lete hem / til men to the Soper dresse
The Styward / bit spices for to hye
And eke the wyn / and al this melodye
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The vsshers / and the Squyery is gon
The spices and the wyn / is come anon
They ete & drynke / and whan this had an ende
Vn to the temple / as resoū was / they wende
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What nedetħ to ȝow / rehercen Corrected from: hereheereheere / here array
Eche man wot wel / that a kynges fest
Hatħ plentee to the meest / and to the leest