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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 89v 12 of 13 folios
Go lede hī to the detħ / I charge the
And happed as they wenten / by the weye
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Toward the place / there he shuld deye
The knygħ t cam / whicħ þ t men wenden / had ben ded
Than thougħ ten they / it were the best red
To lede hem bothe / to the Iuge a geyne
They seiden lord / the knygħ t ne hatħ nat slayne
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His felawe / heere he stant hool a lyue
This is to seyn / bothe on two and three
And to the first knygħ t / rigħ t thus spak he
I dampned the / thow must algate be deed
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And thow also / must Corrected from: <nothing> nedesnedes lese thyn hed
For thow art cause / why thy felawe deyetħ
And to the thridde knygħ t / rigħ t thus he seitħ
Thow hast nat do / that I comaunded the
And thus he dide / do slee hem alle three
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And ay delited hī / to ben a shrewe
And so byfel / a lord of his meyne
That loued vertuous / moralite
Seide on a day / betwix hē two rigħ t thus
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And dronkenesse eke / is a foul recorde
Of any man / and namely in a lorde
There is ful many an eye / & many an ere
A waytynge on a man / he wot nat where
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For goddis loue / drynketħ more attemprely
Wyn maketħ a man / to leese wrecchedly
Hys mynde / & eke hise lymes euer ychone
And preeue it / be thyn owen exper ience
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That wyn ne dotħ to folk Corrected from: <nothing> nono swicħ offence
There is no wyn / byreuetħ me my mygħ t
Of hond ne foot / ne of myn eyen sigħ t
An hundred part / than he had don byfore
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And rigħ t anon / this Irrous cursed wrecche
This knygħ tis sone / let byfore hī fecche
Comaundynge hī / he shulde byfore hī stonde
And sodeynly / he tok his bowe in honde
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And witħ an arwe / he slow the child rigħ t there
Now wheither haue I / a syker hand or noone
Quod he / is al my mygħ t / and mynde a gone
Hatħ wyn byreued me / myn eyen sigħ t