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Main Table of Contents The Canterbury Tales

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• 001-054: The Nun's Priest's Prologue
• 055-680: The Nun's Priest's Tale
• 681-696: The Nun's Priest's Epilogue

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• 001-013: The Knight comments on the Monk's tale
• 014-039: The Host asks the Monk to tell another tale
• 040-054: The Monk is reluctant and the Host asks the Nun's Priest to tell a tale

 The Nun's Priest's Tale

• 055-080: About a poor widow
• 081-115: The widow's yard and its inhabitants
• 116-141: Chauntecleer the rooster has a bad dream
• 142-175: Pertelote the chicken defies bad dreams and cowardly men
• 176-203: Pertelote advises Chauntecleer to eat some herbs
• 204-217: Chauntecleer explains that dreams can have a certain meaning
• 218-262: An example about a man having a bad dream
• 263-296: The bad dream becomes truth
• 297-343: Another example about a man having a bad dream
• 344-355: About St. Kenelm's bad dreams
• 356-390: Chauntecleer gives classical and biblical examples about bad dreams
• 391-420: Chauntecleer and Pertelote are done with bad dreams
• 421-448: Chauntecleer and his wives walk happily in the yard when peril approaches
• 449-500: About a col-fox and examples of killers waiting in ambush
• 501-515: Chauntecleer notices the fox
• 516-555: The fox enchants Chauntecleer and asks him to sing
• 556-571: Chauntecleer falls for the trap
• 572-608: How women respond to husband-endangering peril
• 609-635: All the inhabitants of the yard go after the fox
• 636-647: Chauntecleer sets a trap for the fox
• 648-659: The fox falls for the trap
• 660-680: Chauntecleer is safe and the Nun's Priest urges his audience not to miss the moral of his tale

 The Nun's Priest's Epilogue

• 681-696: Epilogue to the Nun's Priest's Tale

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