CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales, Vol. 3

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The Friar's Tale (more info)
Composed by: Geoffrey Chaucer
Tim Pigott-Smith, reader


1. The Friar's Tale - 02:21
2. Here begins the Friar's Tale - 03:47
3. So it befell that on a certain day - 02:46
4. Now by the truth, my brother dear - 03:48
5. In various ways and figures we appear - 02:47
6. So on their way they rode forth speedily - 02:36
7. The summoner knocketh at the widow's gate - 02:34
8. And when the fiend heard how she cursed him so - 03:10


The Summoner's Tale (more info)
Composed by: Geoffrey Chaucer
Stephen Tompkinson, reader


9. The Summoner's Tale - 03:15
10. Here the Summoner begins his tale - 03:12
11. Nay cried the friar - 03:58
12. Dear Sir, with your permission - 03:43
13. Lo, Moses fasted forty days and nights - 02:40
14. For they, I think, are like Jovinian - 03:42
15. And bear this word away now - 03:20
16. Wrathful Cambyses loved both drink and revel - 03:02
17. Nay, by St Simon, quickly answered he - 03:03
18. Ha! Thought the friar - 03:19
19. The lady of the house sat listening - 02:52
20. My lord, said Jankin - 02:56

The Seaman's Tale (more info)
Composed by: Geoffrey Chaucer
Timothy West, reader


1. The Seaman's Tale - 02:12
2. Here being the Seaman's Tale - 04:23


The Lawyer's Tale (more info)
Composed by: Geoffrey Chaucer
Charles Kay, reader


3. The Lawyer's Tale - 05:36
4. The Prologue of the Lawyer's Tale - 02:06
5. Here the Lawyer begins his tale - 03:44
6. This sultan for his privy council sent - 02:56
7. The day is come at last for their departing - 03:48
8. The mother of the sultan - 03:57
9. Part 2 - 03:43
10. A certain treasure that was with her sent - 03:06
11. Into our English ocean thus she came - 04:11
12. Satan, our ever-waiting arch-betrayer - 03:19
13. Down on her knees she dropped - 03:08
14. But who was wroth this wedding rite to see - 03:33
15. Sad was the king, having this letter read - 03:45
16. Now wept the young and old in all that place - 03:29
17. Part 3 - 03:30
18. How could this feeble woman find the might - 02:55
19. Aella, who caused his mother to be slain - 03:15
20. Fair when they met did Aella give her greeting - 03:23
21. Who can describe the piteous joy they know - 03:25

The Seaman's Tale (more info)
Composed by: Geoffrey Chaucer
Timothy West, reader


1. Sir John had risen some little time ago - 01:52
2. The monk began to stare upon this wife - 03:46
3. This monk made answer as I tell you here - 02:59
4. And afterwards, Sir John with gravity - 02:46
5. On the first Sunday after he was gone - 03:22
6. His wife was ready at the gate to greet him - 03:43


The Prioress's Tale (more info)
Composed by: Geoffrey Chaucer
Rosalind Shanks,


7. The Prioress's Tale - 01:41
8. The Prologue of the Prioress's Tale - 02:07
9. Here begins the Prioress's Tale - 03:10
10. This child passed through the Jewish colony - 03:44
11. The Christians on the street, that came and went - 02:52
12. Therefore I sing, and sing I must indeed - 02:07


The Manciple's Tale (more info)
Composed by: Geoffrey Chaucer
Sean Barrett, reader


13. The Manciple's Tale - 03:09
14. Then to the Manciple spoke up our Host - 02:44
15. Here begins the Manciple's Tale - 03:00
16. But to the end for which I first began - 05:06
17. After this wife sent for her paramour - 03:49
18. And to the crow he cried again - 02:39
19. Thy first of actions, son, and thy chief care - 02:36


The Physician's Tale (more info)
Composed by: Geoffrey Chaucer
Michael Maloney, reader


20. The Physician's Tale - 02:57
21. If she was unexcelled in beauty thus - 03:34
22. This maid of whom I tell did not require - 03:32
23. On this, and he not herem - 03:45
24. O mercy, O dear father - 03:31
25. The words of the Host to the Physician and the Pardoner - 02:12

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