Reader(s): Bebb, Richard
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Poetry
Catalogue No: NA243912
Barcode: 9789626344392
Release Date: 02/2007

CHAUCER, G.: Pardoner's Tale (The) / The Nun's Priest Tale / Franklin's Tale (Middle English) (Unabridged)

These three tales from The Canterbury Tales are read in the original Middle English by Richard Bebb under the direction of Britain’s foremost Chaucer scholar, Derek Brewer. This was Bebb’s last recording—he died shortly after finishing it—but though ill at the time, his strong professional ethic ensured that it lacks none of the brightness and accuracy that he brought to his two other Chaucer recordings on Naxos AudioBooks: The General Prologue and The Knyghtes Tale.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Chaucer, Geoffrey - Author
Bebb, Richard (reader)
1The Prologue of The Pardoners Tale04:18
Bebb, Richard (reader)
2By this guide have I wonne, yeer by yeer…05:09
Bebb, Richard (reader)
3Here biginneth The Pardoners Tale.04:37
Bebb, Richard (reader)
4The apostel weping saith ful pitously…04:09
Bebb, Richard (reader)
5And now that I have spoke of glotonye…04:55
Bebb, Richard (reader)
6Thise ryotoures three, of whiche I telle…04:11
Bebb, Richard (reader)
7This olde man gan loke in his visage…04:42
Bebb, Richard (reader)
8Brethren,'quod he, 'tak kepe what I seye…04:30
Bebb, Richard (reader)
9This yongest, which that wente un-to the toun…04:17
Bebb, Richard (reader)
10O cursed sinne, ful of cursednesse!05:35
Bebb, Richard (reader)
Bebb, Richard (reader)
11The Prologue of The Frankeleyns Tale01:31
Bebb, Richard (reader)
12Here biginneth The Frankeleyns Tale.04:35
Bebb, Richard (reader)
13Heer may men seen an humble wys accord…03:58
Bebb, Richard (reader)
14Now stood his castel faste by the see…03:51
Bebb, Richard (reader)
15So on a day, right in the morwe-tyde…04:31
Bebb, Richard (reader)
16Madame,' quod he, 'by god that this world made…'04:46
Bebb, Richard (reader)
17He seyde, 'Appollo, god and governour…04:56
Bebb, Richard (reader)
18In langour and in torment furious…04:45
Bebb, Richard (reader)
Disc 2
1Whan they were come almost to that citee04:51
Bebb, Richard (reader)
2Upon the morwe, whan that it was day…03:47
Bebb, Richard (reader)
3Aurelius, which that yet despeired is…04:57
Bebb, Richard (reader)
4Yis, certes, lo, thise stories beren witnesse…04:00
Bebb, Richard (reader)
5O Cedasus! It is ful greet pitee…04:59
Bebb, Richard (reader)
6This squyer, which that highte Aurelius…04:00
Bebb, Richard (reader)
7Aurelius, that his cost hath al forlorn…04:57
Bebb, Richard (reader)
Bebb, Richard (reader)
8The Prologue of The Nonne Preestes Tale03:54
Bebb, Richard (reader)
9Here biginneth The Nonne Preestes Tale04:22
Bebb, Richard (reader)
10And so bifel, that in a daweninge…03:57
Bebb, Richard (reader)
11Lo Catoun, which that was so wys a man…04:03
Bebb, Richard (reader)
12And so bifel, that, longe er it were day…04:33
Bebb, Richard (reader)
13And certes, in the same book I rede…04:17
Bebb, Richard (reader)
14And forther-more, I pray yow loketh wel…04:00
Bebb, Richard (reader)
15Whan that the month in which the world bigan…05:14
Bebb, Richard (reader)
16Faire in the sond, to bathe hir merily…04:14
Bebb, Richard (reader)
17This Chauntecleer stood hye up-on his toos…04:35
Bebb, Richard (reader)
18Lo, how fortune turneth sodeinly…04:38
Bebb, Richard (reader)

Total Playing Time: 02:38:34