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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
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There is a pointing hand.ODR
In womman vynolent / is no diffence
This knowen lecchours / by exper ience
But lord crist / whan that it remembretħ me
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Vp on my ȝouthe / and on my Iolyte
It tikeletħ me / a boute myn hert rote
Vn to this day / it dootħ myn herte bote
That I haue had my world / as in my tyme
But age allas / that al wyl envenyme
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Hatħ me byraft / my beaute and my pitħ
Late go fare wel / the deuele goo there witħ
The flour is goon / there is nomore to telle
The bren as I beest can / now mot I selle
But ȝet to be rigħ t merye / wol I fonde
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I sey I had / in hert greet despit
That he of any other / had delit
But he was quyt / be god and be Seynt Ioce
I mad hī of the same wode / a Croce
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Nat of my body / in no foul manere
But certeynly / I made folk swicħ chere
That in his owen grees / I mad hī frie
For anger / and for verrey Ielusie
Two crosses in the left margin were rubbed off.ODR
By god / in erthe / I was his purgatorie
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For whiche I hope / his soule be in glorie
For god it woot / he sat ful ofte and songe
Whan that his shoo / ful bitterly hī wronge
For there was no wygħ t / saue god and he þ t wyst
In manye wyses / how sore I hī twist
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He deyed / whan I come / fro Ierusalem
And litħ in graue / vnder the roode Bem
Al is his toumbe / nougħ t so curious
Whiche that Appollus / wrougħ t so sotelly
500
It nys but waast / Corrected from: b<nothing> b to bery hī preciously
Lat hī fare wel / god ȝeue his soule good reest
He is now in his ga ue / and ded in his chest
God lat his soule / neuer e come in helle
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That fele I now on my ribbes / al by rewe
And euer e shal / vn to myn endyng day
But in oure bed / he was ful fressħ and gay
510
Whan that he wolde / han my beal chose¶ That thougħ he had.