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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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Loo goodmen / a flye and eke a Frere
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Wol falle in euer y dissħ / and eke matere
What spekest thow / of preambulaciou
What aumble or trotte / or pes / or go sitte doun
Thow lettest oure disport / in this manere
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Now be my feitħ / I shal er that I goo
Telle of Sompnoures / swicħ a tale or twoo
That alle folk / shuln laugħ en / in this place
Now elles Frere / I be shrewe thyn face
Quod the Sompnour / and I be shrewe me
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But if I telle tales / two or three
Of Freres / or þ t I come to Sydyngburne
That I shal make / thyn hert for to morne
For wel I wot / thy pacience is a gon
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And seide / late the womman telle hire tale
Ȝe fare as folk / that dronken ben of Ale
Do dame / telle fortħ ȝoure tale / & that is best
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Al redy sire qd she / rigħ t as ȝow list
If I haue lycence / of this worthy Frere
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Ȝis dame qd he / teƚƚ fortħ / & I wyl here
In the olde dayes / of kyng Arthour
Of whicħ that Bretons speken / gret honour
Al was this lond / fulfilled of fairie
The Elf Quene / witħ hire ioly companye
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Daunced ful ofte / in many a grene mede
This was the olde oppynyou / as I rede
I speke of manye / hundred ȝeres a go
But now can noman / se noone Elues moo
For now the gret charite / and preyeres
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Of lymytours / and othere holy Freres
That serchen euer ry lond / and euer y streme
As thikke as motes / in the Sonne beme
Blissyng halles / chaumbres / kychenes / boures
Citees / Burgħ es / Castelles / heye Toures
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Thropes / Bernes / Shepenes / Deyries
This maketħ that there ben / no fayeries
For there as wont / to walken was an Elf
There walketħ now / the lymytour hī self