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

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The Canterbury Tales

From Geoffrey Chaucer's
The Canterbury Tales:

The Physician's Tale
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001-286: The Physician's Tale

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001-029: About a knight called Virginius and his wife and daughter

030-071: The beauty of the knight's daughter

072-104: A note on how to raise children

105-117: The virtue and goodness of the knight's daughter

118-148: A conspiracy to acquire the knight's daughter

149-190: Claudius claims the knight's daughter and says she is his stolen servant

191-212: Judge Appius allows Virginius no reply

213-250: Virginius rather kills his daughter than hand her over to the false judge

251-276: The death of the daughter and the false judge

277-286: The moral of the Physician's tale

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