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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 124v 3 of 16 folios
Hatħ vnderstonden / what this faucon seide
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And wel neigħ for the routhe / almest she deiede
And to the tree / she gotħ ful hastily
And on this faucon / loketħ pytously
The faucon must fallen / fro the twiste
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Whan that it swougħ netħ next / for lak of blood
A longe while / to wayten hire she stood
Til at the laste / she spak in this manere
Vn to the hauke / as ȝe shuln after heere
What is the cause / if that it be to telle
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That ȝe ben / in this furyal peyne of helle
Quod Canacee / vn to this hauke a boue
Is this for sorwe of detħ / or losse of loue
For as I trowe / theise ben causes two
That causen moost / a gentil herte woo
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Of other harm / it nedetħ nat to speke
For ȝe ȝoure self / vpon ȝoure self ȝow wreke
Whicħ preeuetħ wel / that either Ire or drede
Mote ben enchesoū / of ȝoure cruel dede
Syn that I se / noon oþ er wygħ t / ȝow chace
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For loue of god / as dotħ ȝoure seluen grace
Or what may ben ȝoure helpe / for west nortħ est
Ne saw I neuer e or now / no bryd nor beest
That ferde witħ hī self / so pitously
Ȝe slee me witħ ȝoure sorwe / verreyly
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I haue of ȝow / so gret compassioū
For goddes loue / come fro the tree adouñ
And as I am / a kynges dougħ ter trewe
If that I verreyly / the causes knewe
Of ȝoure dissese / if it lay in my mygħ t
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I wolde amende it / or that it were nygħ t
As wisly helpe me / gret god of kynde
And herbes shal I / rigħ t I nowe fynde
To hele witħ ȝoure hurtes / hastily
Tho shrigħ t this faucou / ȝet more pitously
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Than euer e she dide / & fel to grounde a non
And litħ a swougħ ne / as ded as litħ a stoñ
Til Canacee / hatħ in hire lappe / hire take
In to that tyme / she gan of swougħ a wake
And after that / she of swouȝnyng gan a breyde
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Rigħ t in hire haukes ledne / thus she seide
Felyng his similitude / in peynes smerte
Is preeued alday / as men moun it se