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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 Sir Thopas Folio 159v 2 of 3 folios
But if thow prike out of myn haunt //
100
A noon I slee thyn steede //
Witħ Mace
Heere is the Quene of fairye
Witħ harpe & pipe & Symphonye
Dwellyng in this place
105
The child seide also mot I the
To morwe wol I mete the
Whan I haue myn Armoure
And ȝet I hope par ma fay
That þ u shalt wt this launcegay
110
Abyen it ful soure
Thy Mawe
I shal perce if I may
Or it be fully pi me of day
For heere thow shalt be slawe
115
Sire Thopas drow a bak ful faste
This Geaū t at hī stones caste
Out of a fel staf slynge
But faire a skapitħ child Thopas
And al it was thurgħ goddes gras
120
And thurgħ his fair berynge
Ȝet listenetħ lordes to my tale
Meriere than the Nygħ tyngale
I wol ȝow rowne
How Sire Thopas witħ sydes smale
125
Prykyng ouer hil and dale
Is come a geyn to towne
His merie men comaunded he
To make hī bothe game & gle
For nedes must he figħ te
130
Witħ a Geaū t witħ hedes thre
For paramour and Iolite
Of on that shon ful brigħ te
And gestoures for to telle tales
135
A non in myn Armyng
Of romaunces that ben reals
Of Popes and of Cardynales
And eke of loue longyng
They fette hī first swete wyn
140
And Mede eke in a Maselyn
And real spicerie
Of gynger bred that was ful fyn
Witħ sugre þ t is trie
145
He dede next his white ler
Of clotħ of lake fyn & cler
A breche & eke a sherte
And next his shert an Aketoū
150
For percyng of his herte
Was al I wrougħ t of Iewes werk
Ful strong it was of plate
155
In whicħ he wol debate
His sheld was al of gold so red
A charbocle be his syde
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And þ er e he swor on ale & bred
How that the Geaū t shal be ded
Bityde what bytyde
Hise Iambeus were of quyrbuly
His swerd shede of Yuory
165
Helme of latoū brigħ t