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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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Til wel neygħ / the day bygan to Spi nge
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Gan on hem wynke / & bad hem taken kepe
That mechel drynk & labour / wyl haue rest
And witħ a galpyng moutħ / hem alle he kest
And seide that it was tyme / to lye a doun
For blod was / in his dominaciou
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Cherishetħ blood / natures frend qd he
They thanked hī galpyng / by two by three
And euer y wygħ t / gan drawe hī to his rest
As sleep hem bad / they toke it for the best
Here dremes shuln nat now / ben tolde for me
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Ful were here hedes / of fumositee
That causetħ dreem / of whicħ there is no charge
They slepe / til that it was / prime large
The moste parte / but it were Canacee
She was ful mesurable / as wō men be
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For of hire fader / had she taken leue
To gon to rest / sone after it was eue
Hire list nat appalled / for to be
Ne on the morwe / vnfestliche for to se
And slept hire first sleepe / & thanne a woke
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For swicħ a ioie / she in hire hert toke
Bothe of hire queynt Ryng / & hire Mirour
That twenty tyme / she chaunged hire colour
And in hire sleepe / rigħ t for inpressiou
Of hire Mirour / she had a visiou
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Wherfore / er that the sonne / gan vp glyde
She cleped vp on hire Maistres / hire beside
And seide / that hire list for to ryse
Theise olde wō men / that ben gladly wyse
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And seide Madame / whider wolde ȝe gon
Thus erly / for the folk ben alle in rest
No lengere for to slepe / and walke a boute
Hire Maistresse clepeth wō men / a gret route
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And vp they risen / wel an ten or twelue
Vp risetħ fressħ Canacee / hire selue
As rody and brigħ t / as dotħ the ȝonge Sonne
That in the Ram / is foure degrees vp ronne
Non heighere was he / whan she redy was
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Arrayed after the lusty seson / swote
Ligħ tly for to pleye / & walke on foote