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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 91r 3 of 13 folios
This worthy man / was lord of that village
This frere cam / as he were in a rage
Where as this lord / sat etyng at his bord
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Vnethe mygħ t the frere / speke a word
Til at the laste / he seide god ȝow se
This lord gan loke / and seide benedicite
What frere Ioħ n / what maner world is this
I se wel that sum thyng / there is amys
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Ȝe loken as the wode / were ful of theues
Sitte doun a noon / and telle me / what ȝoure gref is
I haue qd he had / a despyt to day
God ȝelde it ȝow / a doun in ȝoure village
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That in this world / there nys so poere a page
That he nold han / abhominacioū
Of that I haue resseyued / in the touñ
And ȝet ne greuetħ it me / half so sore
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Blasfemed hatħ / oure holy couent eke
No Maister Sire qd he / but Seruytour
Thougħ I haue had / in scole that honour
God lyketħ nat / that Raby men vs calle
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Neither in market / ne in ȝoure large halle
No fors qd he / but telle me al ȝoure greef
Sire qd this frere / an odious meschef
This day be tid is / myn ordre and me
And so per consequens / in icħ degree
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Of holy chirche / god amende it sone
Sire qd the lord / ȝe wot what is to done
Distempre ȝow nat / ȝe be my confessour
Ȝe be the salt of the erthe / and the sauour
For goddes loue / ȝoure pacience now holde
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Telle me ȝoure greef / and he a noon hī tolde
As ȝe han herd byforñ / ȝe wot wel what
The lady of the hous / ay stille sat
Til she had herd / what the frere seide
Ey goddis moder qd she / blisseful mayde
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Is there ougħ t elles / telle me feitħ fully
Madame qd he / how thynketħ ȝow ther by
How þ t me thynketħ qd she / so god me spede
I seye a cherl / hatħ doon a Cherles dede
What shulde I sey / god late hī neuer e thee
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His syke hede / is ful of vanytee
I holde hī / in a maner fransye
Madame qd he / by god I shal nat lye