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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 167r 4 of 32 folios
amyned ȝoure coū seil / in the forseide manere / ne in due manere
as the cas requyretħ
as the cas requyret
uisio
trewe frendes /
ne ȝe han nat knowe / þ e
wil of ȝour trewe frendes / olde & wyse /
wil of ȝour
but ȝe han cast alle here
wordes in an hochepot / And enclyned ȝoure herte / to the more
part /& to the grettere noumbre / & there be ȝe cō descended /
wordes in an hochepot / And enclyned ȝoure herte / to the more
part /
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And
sithe ȝe wot wel /þ t men shuln alwey fynde / a grettere nom-
bre of fooles / than of wyse men /
sithe ȝe wot wel /
bre of fooles / than of wyse men /
And þ er fore þ e coū seilles þ t ben
at cō gregacions & multitudes of folk / there as men take more
reward to the noumbre / than to the sapience ofper sones /
at c
reward to the noumbre / than to the sapience of
ȝe
se welþ t in swicħ coū seillynggis / fooles han the maistrie
se wel
ue erred /
but there as þ u hast told me heere biforñ / þ t he nys
nat to blame /þ t chaungetħ his coū seillor s in certeyn cas / &
for certeyn iuste causes
nat to blame /
for certeyn iuste causes
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lours / rig
synne / is mannyss
ne / is werke of the deuele
id est humanum
interlinear gloss .i. humanu
Examynetħ qd she / ȝoure coū seil /
and lat vs se / the whicħ of hē / han spoken most resonably / and
taugħ t ȝow best coū seil /
and lat vs se / the whic
taug
And for as muche / as that þ e examina-
cioū is necessarie / lat vs bigynne / at the Surgiens & at the phi-
siciens /þ t first speken in this matere /
cio
siciens /
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Phisiciens / han seid ȝow in ȝoure co
And in here speche / seiden ful wysly / that to the office of hē
apper tenetħ / to don to euer y wigħ t / honor & pro fyt / & no wygħ t for
to a noye /
ap
to a noye /
And after here craft / to don gret diligence / vn to þ e
cure of hem / whicħ þ t thei han in here gouer naunce /
cure of hem / whic
And sire
rigħ t as þ ei han answered wysly & discretly /
rig
rigħ t so rede I / þ t
þ ei be heigħ ly & souereynly gerdoned / for here noble speche /
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And eke
forþ ei Corrected from: shuldenshullenshuld len do / the more ententif bisinesse / in the curacioū of þ i
dougħ ter deere
for
doug
shuln ȝe nat suffren /
but ȝe ougħ te
rathere gerdone hem /& shewe hē ȝoure largesse
rathere gerdone hem /
yng
this is to seyn ;
another cont
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text /
de it / in this wyse /
so shulde I don h
For rigħ t as they / han venged hē
oon me /& don me wrong / rigħ t so shal I venge me vp oon hē
& don hē wrong /
oon me /
And thā ne haue I cured a conta rie / by a nother
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