CHAUCER, G.: Canterbury Tales, Vol. 2 (Modern English Verse Translation) (Unabridged)

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The Wife of Bath's Tale (more info)
Composed by: Geoffrey Chaucer
Philip Madoc, reader
Frances Jeater, reader
John Moffatt, reader
Charles Simpson, reader
John Rowe, reader
Produced by: Tydeman, John


1. Prologue to The Wife of Bath's Tale - 7:29
2. And tell me also, why there was creation - 4:28
3. Now sires, I shall proceed to tell my tale - 7:32
4. We love no man that spies or gives us charge - 7:32
5. Such words I had always, and brought them forth - 5:05
6. And so it happened on a day in Lent - 6:40
7. Now I will tell you truly, by St Thomas - 6:38
8. Who would believe, who could indeed suppose - 2:42
9. Behold the words between the Summoner and the Friar - 2:05
10. Here begins the Tale of the Wife of Bath - 7:15
11. This Knight, of whom in chief I tell this tale - 5:17
12. Now, some men, it may be, will take offense - 11:34

The Clerk's Tale (more info)
Composed by: Geoffrey Chaucer
Philip Madoc, reader
Frances Jeater, reader
John Moffatt, reader
Charles Simpson, reader
John Rowe, reader
Produced by: Tydeman, John


1. The Clerk's Tale - 3:43
2. Here begins the Tale of the Clerk from Oxford - 7:58
3. Not far from that same stately palace bright - 5:02
4. The thoughtful Marquis spoke then to this maid - 8:09
5. It happened, as it would again, indeed This ugly sergeant, in the same rude way - 9:09
6. So in this way went by four years or more - 9:56
7. But meanwhile, after all his wickedness - 8:47
8. This great earl from Bologna now is there - 5:27
9. And when he saw her stand so patiently - 7:24
10. Chaucer's Envoy: Grisilda and her patience both are dead - 3:11

The Reeve's Tale (more info)
Composed by: Geoffrey Chaucer
Philip Madoc, reader
Frances Jeater, reader
John Moffatt, reader
Charles Simpson, reader
John Rowe, reader
Produced by: Tydeman, John


1. The Prologue to the Reeve's Tale - 4:25
2. Here the Reeve's Tale begins - 4:37
3. Among the Cambridge students there were two - 2:20
4. The Miller smiled at their simplicity - 3:12
5. Like cattle in the rain, wet through and through - 5:50
6. Soon after this the wife left of her snoring - 3:00
7. Yea, hast thou, lecherous rogue? - 3:23


The Nun's Priest's Tale (more info)
Composed by: Geoffrey Chaucer
Philip Madoc, reader
Frances Jeater, reader
John Moffatt, reader
Charles Simpson, reader
John Rowe, reader
Produced by: Tydeman, John


8. The Prologue to the Nun's Priest's Tale - 3:55
9. Here begins the Nun's Priest's Tale. So Once it fell, as day began to break - 8:13
10. 'Madam', quoth he, 'grand merci for your lore' - 5:16
11. But unto one befell a marvellous thing - 5:58
12. Now, when the month in which the world began - 3:39
13. Women's advice is oftentimes ill-fated! - 7:02
14. This simple widow and her daughters two - 4:21
15. Epilogue to the Nun's Priest's Tale - 1:35

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