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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 124r 2 of 16 folios
Nat but witħ fyue or sexe / of hire meyne
And in a trenche / fortħ in the Park gotħ she
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Made the Sonne to seme / rody and brode
But nathelees it was / so fair a sigħ t
That it made alle here hertes / for to ligħ t
What for the Sesoū / & the morwenyng
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What for the foules / that she herd syng
For rigħ t a non / she wist what they ment
Rigħ t by here song / & knew al here entent
If it be taried / til the lust be cold
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Of hem / that after it / han herkened ȝore
The sauour passetħ / euer e lengere the more
For fulsumnesse / of his prolixitee
And by this same resoū / thynketħ me
I shulde vn to the knot / condescende
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And maken of here walkyng / sone an ende
As Canacee was pleiyng / in hire walk
There sat a faucoū / ouer hire hed ful heye
That witħ a pitous voice / so gan to crye
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That al the wode / resouned of hire cry
I betyn had she hire self / so pitously
With bothe hire wenges / til the red blod
Ran endelong the tree / there as she stood
And euer e in on alwey / she cried and shrigħ t
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And witħ hire beek / hire seluen she so twigħ t
That there nas tygre / ne so cruel beste
That dwelletħ either in wode / or in foreste
That nolde han wept / if that he wepe coude
For sorwe of hire / she shrigħ t alwey so loude
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If that I coude / a faucon wel discryue
That herd of swicħ an other / of fairnesse
As wel of plumage / as of gentilnesse
Of shape / of al that mygħ t I rekened be
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A faucon per egryn / than semed she
Of fremd land / and euer emo there she stod
She swougħ ned now and now / for lakke of blood
Til wol ny is she fallen / fro the Tree
This faire kynges dougħ ter / Canacee
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That on hire fyngre / bar the queynt Ryng
Thurgħ whicħ / she vnderstod wel / euer y thyng
That any foul / may in his ledne seyn