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Main Table of Contents The Canterbury Tales

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• 001-452: The Shipman's Tale

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• 001-019: About a rich merchant and his wife
• 020-032: A monk who frequently visits the house of the merchant
• 033-052: The monk claims to be the merchant's cousin
• 053-074: The merchant invites the monk
• 075-088: The merchant and his financial administration
• 089-111: Dan John the monk meets the merchant's wife in the garden
• 112-142: The merchant's wife has a problem
• 143-157: Dan John reveals he is not really the merchant's cousin
• 158-194: The wife needs hundred franks and asks the monk to lend it to her
• 195-207: Dan John promises to bring her money secretly
• 208-238: The importance of the merchant's administration
• 239-254: The merchant announces a business trip to Flanders
• 255-298: Dan John asks the merchant to lend him secretly hundred franks
• 299-306: The merchant goes to Bruges
• 307-324: The interchangeability of money and sex
• 325-364: The merchant returns and Dan John says he repaid the loan to the merchant's wife
• 365-399: The merchant asks his wife for the money
• 400-434: The interchangeability of money and sex
• 435-452: The host comments on the shipman's tale and asks the prioress to tell the next tale

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