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Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Transcribed from: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400., Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.
London: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner, 1868-1879.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AGZ8232.0001.001

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GROUP A. FRAGMENT I.
§ 1. GENERAL PROLOGUE.
¶ Heere bigynneth the knyghtes tale
part 1
¶ Sequitur pars secunda.
¶ Sequitur pars tercia
¶ Sequitur pars quarta
¶ Heere folwen the wordes / bitwene the hoost and the Millere.
¶ Heere bigynneth the Millere his tale.
¶ The prologe / of the Reues tale
¶ Heere bigynneth the Reues tale
¶ The prologe of the Cokes Tale
¶ Heere bigynneth the Cookes tale
GROUP B. (α. FRAGMENT II.)
§ 1. MAN OF LAW'S HEAD-LINK.
¶ The prologe of the mannes tale of lawe
¶ Heere begynneth the man of lawe his tale
part 1
¶ Sequitur pars secunda.
¶ Sequitur pars tercia
GROUP D. FRAGMENT V.
§ 1. WIFE OF BATH'S PREAMBLE.
part
¶ Biholde the wordes bitwene the Somonour / and the ffrere.
And bigynneth hir tale
¶ The prologe of the freres tale .
¶ Heere bigynneth the ffreres tale .
¶ The prologe / of the Somonours tale .
¶ Heere bigynneth the Somonour his tale .
part
¶ The wordes of the lordes Squier and his keruere / for departynge of the fart on twelue .
GROUP E. FRAGMENT VI.
§ 1. THE CLERK'S HEAD-LINK.
¶ Heere bigynneth the tale of the Clerk/ of Oxenford
part 1
¶ Incipit/ secunda pars .
¶ Incipit tercia pars .
Sequitur pars quarta .
¶ Sequitur pars quinta .
[PART VI.]
¶ Lenuoy de Chaucer.
APPENDIX TO GROUP E, § 2. [? Original, but rejected, End-Link to the Clerk's Tale, perhaps following l. 1162, with which the paraphrase of Petrarch's Latin ends, or l. 1169.]
¶ Bihoold the murye wordes of the Hoost.
¶ The prologe of the Marchantes tale.
¶ Heere bigynneth the Marchantes tale.
¶ The Prologe of the Squieres tale.
GROUP F. FRAGMENT VII.
§ 1. THE SQUIRE'S HEAD-LINK.
¶ Heere bigynneth / the Squieres tale .
part 1
¶ Sequitur pars secunda .
¶ Incipit pars tercia .
¶ Heere folwen the wordes of the ffrankelyn to the Squier. and the wordes of the hoost to the ffrankelyn .
[THE PROEM.] ¶ The Prologe / of the ffrankeleyns tale .
¶ Heere bigynneth / the ffrankeleyns tale /
GROUP C. FRAGMENT IV.
§ 1. THE DOCTOR'S TALE.
part
¶ The wordes of the Hoost to the Phisicien and the Pardoner.
¶ Heere folweth the Prologe of the Pardoners tale
¶ Heere bigynneth the Pardoners tale.
GROUP B. (β. FRAGMENT III.)
§ 4. THE SHIPMAN'S TALE.
part
¶ Bihoold the murie wordes of the Hoost to the Shipman and to the lady Prioresse.
¶ The prologe of the Prioresses tale. .
¶ Heere bigynneth the Prioresses tale.
part
¶ Bihoold the murye wordes of the Hoost to Chaucer .
¶ Heere bigynneth Chaucers tale of Thopas.
[The First Fit.]
[The Second Fit.]
¶ Heere the Hoost stynteth Chaucer / of his tale of Thopas.
¶ Heere bigynneth Chaucers tale of Melibee .
part
¶ The murye wordes of the Hoost/ to the Monk/ .
¶ Heere bigynneth / the Monkes tale / de casibus virorum Illustrium.
part
[Lucifer.]
[Adam.]
[Sampson.]
[Hercules.]
[Nebuchadnezzar.]
[Belshazzar.]
[Zenobia.]
[Nero.]
[Holofernes.]
[Antiochus.]
[Alexander the Great.]
[Julius Cæsar.]
[Cresus.]
[Peter the Cruel, of Spain.]
[Peter of Cyprus.]
[Bernabo Visconti, of Milan.]
[Ugolino, Count of Pisa.]
¶ The prologue of the Nonnes preestes tale .
¶ Heere bigynneth / the Nonnes Preestes tale of the Cok and Hen Chauntecleer and Pertelote
GROUP G. FRAGMENT VIII.
§ 1. THE SECOND NUN'S TALE.
¶ Here bigynneth the Seconde Nonnes tale / of the lyf of Seinte Cecile .
¶ The prologe / of the Chanons yemannes tale .
¶ Heere bigynneth / the Chanons yeman his tale. [THE PREAMBLE.]
part 1
Et sequitur pars secunda . [THE TALE.]
GROUP H. FRAGMENT IX.
§ 1. THE MANCIPLE'S HEAD-LINK.
¶ Heere bigynneth the Manciples tale / of the Crowe .
GROUP I. FRAGMENT X.
§ 1. THE BLANK-PARSON LINK.
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¶ Heere bigynneth / the Persouns tale .
¶ Ier. 6o. State super vias & videte & interrogate de viis antiquis / que sit via bona / & ambulate in ea & in|uenietis refrigerium animabus vestris &c . .
Et sequitur secunda pars eiusdem .
¶ Sequitur de septem peccatis mortalibus / et eorum dependencijs circumstancijs & speciebus
[The Twigs of Pride.]
¶ Remedium contra peccatum Superbie .
¶ Sequitur de Inuidia .
¶ Remedium contra peccatum Inuidie
¶ Sequitur de Ira .
¶ Sequitur remedium contra peccatum Ire .
¶ Sequitur de Accidia .
¶ Remedium contra peccatum Accidie .
¶ Sequitur de Auaricia .
¶ Releuacio contra peccatum Auaricie .
Sequitur de gulâ
¶ Remedium contra peccatum Gule .
¶ Sequitur de Luxuria .
¶ Remedium contra peccatum luxurie .
¶ Sequitur secunda pars Penitencie .
et sequitur tercia pars eiusdem .
¶ Here taketh the makere of this book/ his leue .
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APPENDIX TO GROUP A.
[THE SPURIOUS TALE OF GAMELYN.]
[Spurious Link.]
[Tale.]
2 THE MAN-OF-LAW—SHIPMAN LINK. Here endith the man of lawe his tale. And // next folwith the Shipman his prolog.
3. THE NUN'S PRIEST'S END-LINK.
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