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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 Squire's Tale Folio 123r 15 of 16 folios
At after soper / gotħ this noble kyng
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To sen this hors / of Bras / witħ al a route
Of ladyes / and of lordes / hi a boute
That syn the gret Corrected from: <nothing> asassege / of Troie was
There as men wondred / on an hors also
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Ne was there swicħ a wondryng / as was tho
But fynaly / the kyng axed the knygħ t
The vertu of this courser / and the mygħ t
And preyed hī to telle / his gouernaunce
This hors a non / gan for to trippe & daunce
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Whan that the knygħ t / leid hand vp on his reyne
And seide Sire / there nys nomore to seyne
But whan ȝow list / to riden any where
Ȝe moten trille a pyn / stant in his Ere
Whicħ I shal tellen ȝow / betwixe vs two
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Ȝe moten nempne hi / to what place also
Or to what contre / that ȝow list to ryde
And whan ȝe come there / as ȝow list abide
Bid hī decende / and trille an other pyn
For þ er e Inne litħ the effect / of al the gyn
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And he wol doun decende / & don ȝoure wille
And in that place / he wol abyden stille
Thougħ al the world / the contrarie had swore
He shal nat thens be drawe / ne be bore
Or if ȝow list / to bidde hī / thens gon
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Trille this pyn / & he wol vanysshe a non
Out of the sigħ t / of euer y maner e wygħ t
And come a geyn / be it day or nygħ t
Whan that ȝow list / to clepen hī ageyn
In swicħ a gyse / as I shal to ȝow seyn
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Betwixen ȝow & me / & that ful sone
Ryde whan ȝow list / there is nomore to done
And hatħ conceyued / in his wyt a rigħ t
The manere & the fourme / of al this thyng
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Ful glad and blithe / this noble lusty kyng
Repairetħ to his reuel / as byforn
The brydel is / in to the Tour I borñ
And kept a mong his Iueles / lief & deere
The hors vanysshed / I not in whicħ manere
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Out of here sigħ t / ȝe gete nomore for me
But thus I leete / in lust and Iolitee
This Cambyuscan / his lordes festeiynge