The Canterbury tales

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Author

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

Publication

Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin

1957

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Available at URL http://www.hti.umich.edu/c/cme/

This text has been made available through the Oxford Text Archive for personal scholarly use only. OTA number: U-1678-C

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http://name.umdl.umich.edu/CT

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"The Canterbury tales." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/CT. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 21, 2025.

Pages

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Loo adam, in the feeld of damyssene, Line 2007 
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As adam, til he for mysgovernaunce Line 2012 
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To labour, and to helle, and to meschaunce. Line 2014 