THE MILLER’S PROLOGUE The Words between the Host and the Miller Now when the knight had thus his story told, In all the rout there was nor young nor old But said it was a… 

THE LAWYER’S PROLOGUE O Hateful evil! State of Poverty! With thirst, with cold, with hunger so confounded! To ask help shameth thy heart’s delicacy; If none thou ask, by need thou art so wounded That… 

THE CLERK’S PROLOGUE Sir clerk of Oxford,” our good host then said, “You ride as quiet and still as is a maid But newly wedded, sitting at the board; This day I’ve heard not from… 

THE FRANKLIN’S TALE In old Armorica, now Brittany, There was a knight that loved and strove, did he To serve a lady in the highest wise; And many a labour, many a great emprise He… 

THE CANON’S YEOMAN’S TALE Prima pars Seven years I’ve served this canon, but no more I know about his science than before. All that I had I have quite lost thereby; And, God knows, so… 

PROLOGUE TO MELIBEUS No more of this, for God’s high dignity!” Exclaimed our host, “For you, sir, do make me So weary with your vulgar foolishness That, as may God so truly my soul bless,… 

THE PROLOGUE TO THE NUN’S PRIEST’S TALE Hold!” cried the knight. “Good sir, no more of this, What you have said is right enough, and is Very much more; a little heaviness Is plenty for… 

THE NUN’S PRIEST’S TALE OF THE COCK AND HEN, CHANTICLEER AND PERTELOTE A widow poor, somewhat advanced in age, Lived, on a time, within a small cottage Beside a grove and standing down a dale.… 

THE REEVE’S TALE At Trumpington, not far from Cambridge town, There is a bridge wherethrough a brook runs down, Upon the side of which brook stands a mill; And this is very truth that now…