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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 90v 2 of 13 folios
Now Thomas help / for Seynt charitee
And doun a noon / he sette hī on his knee
He wolde that the frere / had ben a fire
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Witħ his fals / dissimulacione
Swicħ thyng as is / in myn possessione
Qd he / that may I ȝeue ȝow & noon other
Ȝe seye me thus / how that I am ȝoure brother
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I toke oure dame / the ƚ re of oure seal
Vn to ȝoure holy Couent / whil I lyue
And in thyn hand / þ u shalt it han a noone
On this condicione / and other noone
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That þ u departe it / so / my dere brother
That euer y frere / haue as meche as other
Thus shalt þ u swere / on thy pro fessione
Witħ outen fraude / or cauellacione
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Loo heere my feitħ / in me shal be no lak
Seide this man / and grope wel behynde
By nethe my buttok / there shalt þ u fynde
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A thyng that I haue / hid / in preuytee
And doun his hand / he launched to the clift
In hope / for to fynde there / a ȝift
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There is no capel / drawyng in a cart
That mygħ t han leete a fart / of swicħ a souñ
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A fals cherl qd he / for goddis bones
This hast þ u for despyt / don for the nones
Thow shalt a bye / this fart if I may
His meyne / whicħ / þ t herden swicħ a fray
Comen lepyng In / and chased out the frere
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And fortħ he gotħ / witħ a ful angry chere
And fette his felawe / there as lay his stoor
He loked as he were / a wylde Boor
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Where as there woned / a man of gret hounour
To whom that he was / alwey confessour