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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 Tale of Melibeus Folio 165v 32 of 32 folios
pestilences þ t ben in frendshipe / the grettest is flaterie / And þ ter fore it is
more nede /þ t þ tu eschue & drede flat er eres / than any other peeple //
more nede /
The
book seitħ / þ u shalt rathere / drede & flee / fro the swete wordes of
flater yng preysers / than fro the egre wordes of thy frend / þ t seitħ
the thyne sothes
book seit
flat
the thyne sothes
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is a snare / to cacchen Innocentez /
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he seitħ also / þ t he þ t speketħ
to his frend / wordes of swetnesse /& of plesaunce / settetħ a nette
biforñ his feet to cacchen hī
to his frend / wordes of swetnesse /
bifor
ne nat thyne Eres to flatereres / ne take no co
flat
of swetnesse
And eke þ u shalt eschue the coū seillȳ g
of thyne olde enemys / that ben reconsiled
of thyne olde enemys / that ben reconsiled
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wig
Ysope seit
werre / or enemytee / ne telle hem nat thy co
And Seneca tel-
letħ the cause why / I t may nat be / seitħ he / þ t where as gret
fyr / hatħ longe tyme endured / þ t þ er e ne dwelletħ som vapour /
of warmnesse //
let
fyr / hat
of warmnesse //
And þ er fore seitħ Salamon ¶ In þ in olde Foo / trost ne-
uere /
uere /
for sikerly / thougħ þ in enemy be reconsiled / & makeþ þ e chere
of humilitee /& loutetħ to the / wt his hed / ne trost hī neuer e /
of humilitee /
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For cer tes /
he maketħ thilke feyned humilitee / more for his pro fyt / than for
any loue of thyper sone / by cause þ t he demetħ to haue victorie ouer þ i
per sone / by swicħ feyned coū tenance / þ e whicħ victorie / he mygħ t
nat haue by strif of werre
he maket
any loue of thy
nat haue by strif of werre
felaweshipe wt thyne olde enemys / for if
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And eke þ u must eschue / the coū seillȳ g
of hē / þ t ben þ ine ser uantz / & beren the gret reuer ence / for per auenture
they seyn it more for drede /þ an for loue /
of h
they seyn it more for drede /
And þ er fore seitħ a Phi-
losophre in this wyse / There is no wygħ t par fytly trewe / to hī / þ t
he to sore dredetħ
losophre in this wyse / There is no wyg
he to sore dredet
gret of any Em
loue of the peeple / than drede
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of folk
Salamon seit
shuln also han in suspect /
ȝow a thyng p
dorie seit
et
shalt also haue in suspect /
co
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man /
also eschue /
ripe
shullen folwe
examynen ȝoure co