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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 Summoner's Tale Folio 86v 6 of 13 folios
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Or ellis what ȝow list / we moun nat chese
A goddis halpeny / or a masse peny
Or ȝeue vs of ȝoure brawne / if ȝe haue eny
A dagoū of ȝoure blanket / lef dame
Loo deere suster / heere wryte I ȝoure name
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Bacoū or Beef / or swicħ thyng as ȝe fynde
That was here hostis man / and bar a sak
And that men ȝaf hem / leide it on his bak
And whan that he was / out at the dore / a noon
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He planed a wey / the names euer ychou
That he byforñ had wretyn / in his tables
He serued hem witħ nyfles / and witħ fables
Pees qd oure host / for cristes moder deere
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Telle fortħ thy tale / and spare it nat at al
So thryue I qd this Sompnour / so I shal
So longe he went / fro hous to hous / til he
Cam to an hous / there he was wont to be
Refresshed moore / than in an hundred places
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Seke lay the bonde man / whos the place is
Bedred vp on a couche / Corrected from: sekelowelowe seke he lay
Deus hic qd he / O Thomas frend good day
Seide this frere / curteisly and softe
Thomas qd he / god ȝelde ȝow / ful ofte
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Haue I vp on this benche / faren ful wele
Heere haue I eten / ful many a mery mele
And leide a doun his potent / and his hat
And eke his skrippe / and sette hī softe a doune
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His felawe was gon / walked in to toune
Fortħ witħ his knaue / in to that hostelrye
Where as he shope hī / thilke nygħ t to lye
O deere maister / qd this syke man
How han ȝe faren / syn that Marche bygan
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I saw ȝow nat / this fourtene nygħ t or more
God wot qd he / laboured haue I sore
And specially / for thy saluacione
Haue I seid / many a precious orisone
And for oure Corrected from: <nothing> oþ ereoþ ere frendis / god hē blisse
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I haue to day ben / at ȝoure chirche at messe
Nat al after the text / of holy wrytte
For it is hard to ȝow / as I suppose
And therfore wol I telle ȝow / al the glose
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Glosyng / is a ful glorious thyng / certeyn