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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 Wife of Bath's Tale Folio 78v 6 of 10 folios
Than qd she / I dar me wel a vaunte
Thy lif is saf / for I wol stonde ther by
Vp on my lif / the Quene wol seye as I
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Lat se / whicħ is the pruddest / of hem alle
That weretħ on / a kerchef or a calle
That dar sey nay / of that I shal the teche
Lat vs go fortħ / witħ outen lengere speche
Tho rovned she / a pistel in his eere
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And bad hī to be glad / & haue no fere
Seyde / he had hold his day / as he had higħ t
And redy was his answere / as he seide
Ful many a noble wyf / & many a mayde
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And many a wydewe / for that they ben wyse
The Quene hire self / sittynge as Iustise
And afterward / this knygħ t was bode appere
To euer y wygħ t / comaunded was silence
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And that the knygħ t / shulde telle in audience
What thyng / that worldly wommen / louen best
This knygħ t ne stod nat stille / as dotħ a best
But to this questiou / a noon answerede
W manly voys / that al the courte it herde
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My liege lady / generally qd he
Wommen desiren / to han souer aignete
As wel ouer hire husbonde / as hire loue
And for to ben / in maistrie hī a boue
This is ȝoure most desire / thougħ ȝe me kille
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Dotħ as ȝow list / I am here at ȝoure wylle
Ne wydewe / that contraried that he sayde
But seiden he was worthy / to haue his lyf
And witħ that word / vp stirt this olde wyf
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Whicħ that the knygħ t saw / sittyng on the grene
Mer cy qd she / my souereyne lady Quene
Er that ȝoure courte departe / do me rigħ t
I taugħ t this answere / vn to the knygħ t
For whicħ he pligħ t me / his trouthe there
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The first thyng / that I wolde hī requere
He wolde it do / if it lay in his mygħ t
Byfore this courte / than preye I the Sire Knygħ t
Quod she / that þ u me take vn to thy wyf
For wel thow wost / that I haue kept thy lif
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If I sey fals / sey nay vp on thy fey
I wot rigħ twel / þ at swicħ was myn byheste