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Main Table of Contents The Canterbury Tales

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Middle-english hypertext

• 001-035: The Prioress's Prologue
• 036-238: The Prioress's Tale

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• 001-035: A hymn to Mary and Jesus

 The Prioress's Tale

• 036-049: A Jewish quarter and a Christian school
• 050-077: A choir boy who worships Mary
• 078-098: The choir boy learns to sing Alma redemptoris
• 099-112: The boy sings Alma redemptoris in the Jewish quarter
• 113-133: The Jews kill the choir boy
• 134-154: The boy's mother searches for him
• 155-168: The dead boy is found
• 169-182: The dead boy is brought to an abbey and the Jews are punished
• 183-196: The dead boy sings again and the abott asks how that is possible
• 197-217: The dead boy explains his singing
• 218-238: The abott stops the boy and the boy is made a martyr

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