| A.................86 | |
| NPT 2821 A povre wydwe, somdeel stape in age, | 0 |
| NPT 2822 Was whilom dwellyng in a narwe cotage, | 2 |
| NPT 2823 Biside a grove, stondynge in a dale. | 2 |
| NPT 2823 Biside a grove, stondynge in a dale. | 2 |
| NPT 2825 Syn thilke day that she was last a wyf | 4 |
| NPT 2826 In pacience ladde a ful symple lyf, | 6 |
| NPT 2831 Three keen, and eek a sheep that highte Malle. | 10 |
| NPT 2833 In which she eet ful many a sklendre meel. | 12 |
| NPT 2834 Of poynaunt sauce hir neded never a deel. | 14 |
| NPT 2846 For she was, as it were, a maner deye. | 26 |
| NPT 2847 A yeerd she hadde, enclosed al aboute | 26 |
| NPT 2848 With stikkes, and a drye dych withoute, | 28 |
| NPT 2849 In which she hadde a cok, hight Chauntecleer. | 28 |
| NPT 2854 Than is a clokke or an abbey orlogge. | 34 |
| NPT 2860 And batailled as it were a castel wal; | 40 |
| NPT 2877 But swich a joye was it to here hem synge, | 56 |
| NPT 2882 And so bifel that in a dawenynge, | 62 |
| NPT 2891 Ye been a verray sleper; fy, for shame! " | 70 |
| NPT 2899 Withinne our yeerd, wheer as I saugh a beest | 78 |
| NPT 2911 I kan nat love a coward, by my feith! | 90 |
| NPT 2920 Have ye no mannes herte, and han a berd? | 100 |
| NPT 2925 Whan humours been to habundant in a wight. | 104 |
| NPT 2934 Causeth ful many a man in sleep to crie | 114 |
| NPT 2938 That werken many a man sleep ful wo; | 118 |
| NPT 2940 " Lo Catoun, which that was so wys a man, | 120 |
| NPT 2958 And if it do, I dar wel leye a grote, | 138 |
| NPT 2959 That ye shul have a fevere terciane, | 138 |
| NPT 2961 A day or two ye shul have digestyves | 140 |
| NPT 2972 That hath of wysdom swich a greet renoun, | 152 |
| NPT 2975 Of many a man moore of auctorite | 154 |
| NPT 2986 On pilgrimage, in a ful good entente, | 166 |
| NPT 2987 And happed so, they coomen in a toun | 166 |
| NPT 2996 That oon of hem was logged in a stalle, | 176 |
| NPT 2997 Fer in a yeerd, with oxen of the plough; | 176 |
| NPT 3011 Hym thoughte his dreem nas but a vanitee. | 190 |
| NPT 3023 With a ful pitous face, pale of hewe. | 202 |
| NPT 3036 A dong-carte, wente as it were to donge lond, | 216 |
| NPT 3056 Though it abyde a yeer, or two, or thre. | 236 |
| NPT 3068 For certeyn cause, into a fer contree, | 248 |
| NPT 3070 That made hem in a citee for to tarie | 250 |
| NPT 3072 But on a day, agayn the even-tyde, | 252 |
| NPT 3076 But herkneth! To that o man fil a greet mervaille: | 256 |
| NPT 3078 Hym mette a wonder dreem agayn the day. | 258 |
| NPT 3079 Hym thoughte a man stood by his beddes syde, | 258 |
| NPT 3090 I sette nat a straw by thy dremynges, | 270 |
| NPT 3093 And of many a maze therwithal; | 272 |
| NPT 3109 That many a dreem ful soore is for to drede. | 288 |
| NPT 3112 Of Mercenrike, how Kenelm mette a thyng. | 292 |
| NPT 3113 A lite er he was mordred, on a day, | 292 |
| NPT 3113 A lite er he was mordred, on a day, | 292 |
| NPT 3137 May rede of dremes many a wonder thyng. | 316 |
| NPT 3139 Mette he nat that he sat upon a tree, | 318 |
| NPT 3156 I hem diffye, I love hem never a deel! | 336 |
| NPT 3174 And with a chuk he gan hem for to calle, | 354 |
| NPT 3175 For he hadde founde a corn, lay in the yerd. | 354 |
| NPT 3179 He looketh as it were a grym leoun, | 358 |
| NPT 3182 He chukketh whan he hath a corn yfounde, | 362 |
| NPT 3184 Thus roial, as a prince is in his halle, | 364 |
| NPT 3204 But sodeynly hym fil a sorweful cas, | 384 |
| NPT 3207 And if a rethor koude faire endite, | 386 |
| NPT 3208 He in a cronycle saufly myghte it write | 388 |
| NPT 3209 As for a sovereyn notabilitee. | 388 |
| NPT 3215 A col-fox, ful of sly iniquitee, | 394 |
| NPT 3221 And in a bed of wortes stille he lay | 400 |
| NPT 3244 Streyneth me nedely for to doon a thyng -- | 424 |
| NPT 3249 Or if his wityng streyneth never a deel | 428 |
| NPT 3252 My tale is of a cok, as ye may heere, | 432 |
| NPT 3274 Among the wortes on a boterflye, | 454 |
| NPT 3279 For natureelly a beest desireth flee | 458 |
| NPT 3286 Now, certes, I were worse than a feend, | 466 |
| NPT 3291 For trewely, ye have as myrie a stevene | 470 |
| NPT 3313 Among his vers, how that ther was a cok, | 492 |
| NPT 3314 For that a preestes sone yaf hym a knok | 494 |
| NPT 3314 For that a preestes sone yaf hym a knok | 494 |
| NPT 3325 Allas, ye lordes, many a fals flatour | 504 |
| NPT 3326 Is in youre courtes, and many a losengeour, | 506 |
| NPT 3341 And on a Friday fil al this meschaunce. | 520 |
| NPT 3352 For on a Friday, soothly, slayn was he. | 532 |
| NPT 3368 And brende hirselven with a stedefast herte. | 548 |
| NPT 3384 And Malkyn, with a dystaf in hir hand; | 564 |
| NPT 3393 So hydous was the noyse -- a, benedicitee! -- | 572 |
| NPT 3410 A verray pestilence upon yow falle! | 590 |
| NPT 3417 And heighe upon a tree he fleigh anon. | 596 |
| NPT 3438 But ye that holden this tale a folye, | 618 |
| NPT 3439 As of a fox, or of a cok and hen, | 618 |
| NPT 3439 As of a fox, or of a cok and hen, | 618 |
| A-NYGHT...........1 | |
| NPT 3167 For whan I feele a-nyght your softe syde -- | 346 |
| ABBEY.............1 | |
| NPT 2854 Than is a clokke or an abbey orlogge. | 34 |
| ABHOMYNABLE.......1 | |
| NPT 3053 Mordre is so wlatsom and abhomynable | 232 |
| ABOUTE............2 | |
| NPT 2847 A yeerd she hadde, enclosed al aboute | 26 |
| NPT 3161 Ye been so scarlet reed aboute youre yen, | 340 |
| ABOVE.............3 | |
| NPT 2909 Allas, " quod she, " for, by that God above, | 88 |
| NPT 2917 Ne noon avauntour, by that God above! | 96 |
| NPT 2953 To purge yow bynethe and eek above. | 132 |
| ABRAYDE...........1 | |
| NPT 3008 This man out of his sleep for feere abrayde; | 188 |
| ABYDE.............4 | |
| NPT 3056 Though it abyde a yeer, or two, or thre. | 236 |
| NPT 3080 And hym comanded that he sholde abyde, | 260 |
| NPT 3095 But sith I see that thou wolt heere abyde, | 274 |
| NPT 3412 Maugree youre heed, the cok shal heere abyde. | 592 |
| ACCORD............1 | |
| NPT 2879 In sweete accord, " My lief is faren in londe! " -- | 58 |
| ACCORDANT.........1 | |
| NPT 2836 Hir diete was accordant to hir cote. | 16 |
| ACHILLES..........1 | |
| NPT 3148 But he was slayn anon of Achilles. | 328 |
| ACTES.............1 | |
| NPT 3136 Whoso wol seken actes of sondry remes | 316 |
| ACURSED...........1 | |
| NPT 3230 O Chauntecleer, acursed be that morwe | 410 |
| ADAM..............1 | |
| NPT 3258 And made Adam fro Paradys to go, | 438 |
| ADVERSITEE........1 | |
| NPT 3153 Adversitee; and I seye forthermoor | 332 |
| AFERD.............3 | |
| NPT 2919 That any thyng myghte make yow aferd? | 98 |
| NPT 3176 Real he was, he was namoore aferd. | 356 |
| NPT 3421 In as muche as I maked yow aferd | 600 |