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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 90r 13 of 13 folios
What shulde I telle / the answere of the knygħ t ¶ qd Wytton;
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His sone was slayn / there nys nomore to seye
By war therfore / witħ lordes how Corrected from: toȝeto ȝe pleye
Syngetħ Placebo / and I shal if I can
But if it be / vn to a pore man
To a pore man / men shulde hise vices telle
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But nat to a lord / thougħ he shulde go to helle
How destroyed he / the ryuer of Gyseñ
For that an hors of his / was dreynt there Inne
Whan that he went / Babylon to wynne
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He made that the Ryuer / was so smal
That wommen mygħ t / wade it ouer al
Lo ~ what seide he / that so wel teche can
Ne be no felawe / to Corrected from: annonan non Irous man
Ne witħ no wood man / walke by the weye
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Lest the repente / I wol no forthere seye
Now Thomas leue brother / leeue thyn I re
Thow shalt me fynde / as Iust as is a squire
Holde nat the deuelis knyf / ay at thyn herte
Corrected from: TynThynThyn anger dotħ the / al to sore smerte
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But shewe to me / al thyn confessione
Nay qd this seke man / be Seynt Symon
I haue ben shreue this day / at myn curat
I haue hī told / holly al myn estat
It nedetħ nomore / to speke of it seitħ he
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But if me liste / of myn humylitee
Quod he / for many a muscle and many an Oistre
Whan other men / han ben ful wel at eese
Hatħ ben oure fode / oure cloistre for to reise
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And ȝet god woot / vnethe the fundament
Parfourmed is / ne of oure pauement
Is nat a tyle ȝet / witħ Inne oure wones
By god we owen / fourty pound for stones
Now help Thomas / for hī þ t harwed helle
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Or elles mote we / oure bookes selle
And if þ u lakke / oure predicaciou
Than gotħ the world / al to destruccioū
For who so fro this world / wold vs byreue
So god me saue Thomas / be ȝoure leeue
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He wold byreue / out of this world the Sonne
For who can teche and werken / as we conne
And that is nat / of lytel tyme qd he
But sithe Ely was / and Helysee
Han freres ben / that fynde I of recorde
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In charitee / I thanked be oure lorde