From Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", The Man of Law's Tale, Table of Contents

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The Canterbury Tales

From Geoffrey Chaucer's
The Canterbury Tales:

The Man of Law's Introduction
Prologue, Tale and Epilogue
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001-098: The Man of Law's Introduction

099-133: The Man of Law's Prologue

134-385: The Man of Law's Tale, 1st Part

386-875: The Man of Law's Tale, 2nd Part

876-1162: The Man of Law's Tale, 3rd Part

1163-1162: The Man of Law's Epilogue

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The Man of Law's Introduction

001-038: The Host asks the Lawyer to tell a tale

039-098: The Lawyer reflects on Chaucer's writing

The Man of Law's Prologue

099-133: About the hateful state of poverty

The Man of Law's Tale

First Part

134-147: About a group of Syrian merchants that go to Rome

148-168: The emperor's beautiful daughter Constance

169-189: The merchants tell the sultan about Constance

190-203: The predictive power of the stars

204-217: The sultan wants Constance

218-245: The legal difficulties of marriage

246-266: The preparation of the marriage

267-315: Constance's pity and woe

316-322: Constance leaves for Syria

323-343: The sultan's mother repudiates her son's conversion

344-357: The sultan's mother initiates a conspiracy

358-371: A comparison between the sultan's mother, the snake in hell and Satan

372-385: The onset of the conspiracy

Second Part

386-406: Constance arrives in Syria

407-441: The execution of the conspiracy

442-469: Constance drifts across the sea

470-483: Why was Constance not killed in Syria?

484-497: Why has Constance not drowned while drifting at sea?

498-504: Why was Constance not starved while drifting at sea?

505-532: Constance's ship runs ashore and she finds asylum

533-581: Constance converts her host to Christianity

582-602: Another conspiracy

603-630: Constance is accused, but not yet convicted

631-658: Constance pleads "not guilty"

659-679: Constance's innocence is proved

680-693: The lying knight is executed, king Alla is converted to Christianity and Constance and the king are married

694-707: The king's mother dislikes her son's marriage

708-728: King Alla goes to war and Constance gives birth to a boy

729-742: A messenger is sent to the king, but the messenger goes to the king's mother first

743-756: The letter to the king is falsified while the messenger sleeps

757-770: The king reads the letter and sends the messenger back with a return letter

771-777: A sermon on drunkenness

778-784: About the king's mother's badness

785-805: The king's return letter is falsified

806-840: The messenger returns to the king's court

841-861: Constance asks virgin Mary for help

862-875: Constance and her son are victually embarked and pushed into the sea

Third Part

876-896: King Alla returns home, learns about the treason of his mother and consequently executes his mother

897-910: Meanwhile, Constance drifts at sea for five years before she reaches land

911-924: A thug attempts to rape Constance

925-952: Biblical examples about protection

953-966: The emperor of Rome learns about the conspiracy in Syria and sends a punitive expedition

967-987: On the way home to Rome, the expedition finds and rescues Constance's drifting ship

988-1001: King Alla goes on a pilgrimage to Rome

1002-1029: King Alla unknowingly meets his own son

1030-1078: King Alla and Constance are happily united

1079-1120: Constance meets her father the emperor of Rome

1121-1127: Constance's son Maurice is the future emperor of Rome

1128-1141: King Alla and Constance return to England

1142-1148: The death of King Alla

1149-1162: Constance retires in Rome

The Man of Law's Epilogue

1163-1190: Epilogue to the Man of Law's Tale