Chaucer, G.: Canterbury Tales, Vol. 3 (Modern English Verse Translation) (Unabridged)

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


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


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


9. The Summoner's Tale - 3:15
10. Here the Summoner begins his tale - 3:12
11. Nay cried the friar - 3:58
12. Dear Sir, with your permission - 3:43
13. Lo, Moses fasted forty days and nights - 2:40
14. For they, I think, are like Jovinian - 3:42
15. And bear this word away now - 3:20
16. Wrathful Cambyses loved both drink and revel - 3:02
17. Nay, by St Simon, quickly answered he - 3:03
18. Ha! Thought the friar - 3:19
19. The lady of the house sat listening - 2:52
20. My lord, said Jankin - 2:56

The Seaman's Tale (more info)
Geoffrey Chaucer,
Timothy West, narrator


1. The Seaman's Tale - 2:12
2. Here being the Seaman's Tale - 4:23


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


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

The Seaman's Tale (more info)
Geoffrey Chaucer,
Timothy West, narrator


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


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


7. The Prioress's Tale - 1:41
8. The Prologue of the Prioress's Tale - 2:07
9. Here begins the Prioress's Tale - 3:10
10. This child passed through the Jewish colony - 3:44
11. The Christians on the street, that came and went - 2:52
12. Therefore I sing, and sing I must indeed - 2:07


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


13. The Manciple's Tale - 3:09
14. Then to the Manciple spoke up our Host - 2:44
15. Here begins the Manciple's Tale - 3:00
16. But to the end for which I first began - 5:06
17. After this wife sent for her paramour - 3:49
18. And to the crow he cried again - 2:39
19. Thy first of actions, son, and thy chief care - 2:36


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


20. The Physician's Tale - 2:57
21. If she was unexcelled in beauty thus - 3:34
22. This maid of whom I tell did not require - 3:32
23. On this, and he not herem - 3:45
24. O mercy, O dear father - 3:31
25. The words of the Host to the Physician and the Pardoner - 2:12

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