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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Preestes Tale, from the Canterbury Tales Clarendon Press series |
| Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Editor | Richard Morris |
| Publisher | Clarendon, 1889 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 19 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 262 pages |
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