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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 89r 11 of 13 folios
Ȝe lyn here ful of anger / and of Ire
Witħ whicħ the deuele / settetħ ȝoure hert a fyre
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And chiden heere / the Corrected from: holyselyholy sely Innocent
Ȝoure Corrected from: <nothing> wyfwyf / that is so meke and pacient
And therfore Thoma s / trowe me if þ u lest
Ne stryue nat witħ thy wyf / as for the best
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Touchyng swicħ thyng / lo what the wyseman seitħ
Witħ Inne thyn hous / ne be þ u no lyoū
To thyne suggettz / do non oppressioū
Ne make thyn acqueyntaunce / nat to flee
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Be war from hire / that in thy bosom slepetħ
War froo the serpent / that so slyly crepetħ
Vnder the gras / and styngetħ sotilly
Be war my sone / and herkene paciently
That twenty thousand men / han lost here lyues
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For stryuyng witħ here lemmans / and here wyues
Now syn ȝe han / so holy meeke a wyf
What nedetħ ȝow / Thomas to maken strif
Ther nys I wysse / no serpent so cruelle
Whan a man tret vp on his tail / ne half so felle
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Vengeaunce is thanne / al that they desire
Ire is a synne Corrected from: <nothing> onon / of the greete Corrected from: <nothing> ofof Seuene
Abhominable / to the god of heuene
And to hī self / it is destruccione
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This euer y lewed vyker / or Persone
Can seyn / how Ire / engendretħ homycide
Ire is in sotħ / executour of pryde
I coude of Ire / seyn so mechil sorwe
My tale shuld laste / til to morwe
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And þ er fore preye I god / bothe day & nygħ t
An Irous man / god sende hī litel mygħ t
It is gret harm / and certes greet pitee
To sette an Irous man / in heye degree
There is a cross in dry point in the right margin.ODR
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As seitħ Senek / that duryng his estate
Vp on a day / out redyn knygħ tes twoo
That oon of hem cam hom / that othir nougħ t
A noon the knygħ t / byfore the Iuge is brougħ t
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That seide thus / thow hast thy felawe slayne
For whicħ I deme the / to the detħ certayne
And to a nother knygħ t / comaunded he