The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  fful brighter was / the shynyng of hir hewe
                                
                                  Than in the Tour / the noble yforged newe
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                                  But of hir soong it was as loude and yerne
                                
                                  As any swalwe / sittyng on a Berne
                                
                                  Ther-to / she koude skippe / and make game
                                
                                  As any kyde / or Calf / folwynge his dame
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                                  Hir mouth was sweete / as Bragot or the meeth
                                
                                  Or hoord of Apples / leyd in hey or heeth
                                
                                  Wynsynge she was / as is a ioly Colt
                                
                                  Loong as a Mast / and vprighte as a bolt
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                                  A brooch she baar / vp on hir loue coler
                                
                                  As brood / as is the boos of a Bokeler
                                
                                  Hir shoes were laced / on hir legges hye
                                
                                  She was a Prymerole / a piggesnye
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                                  ffor any lord / to leggen in his bedde
                                
                                  Or yet for any good yeman to wedde
                                
                                  ¶ Now sire and eft sire / so bifel the cas
                                
                                  That on a day / this hende Nicholas
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                                  ffil with this yonge wyf / to rage and pleye
                                
                                  Whil þat hir housbonde / was at Osneye
                                
                                  As clerkes been / ful subtil and ful queynte
                                
                                  And pryuely / he caughte hire by the queynte
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                                  And seyde ywys / but if ich haue my wille
                                
                                  ffor derne loue / of thee lemman I spille
                                
                                  And heeld hire harde / by the haunche bones
                                
                                  And seyde lemman / loue me al atones
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                                  Or I wol dyen / al so god me saue
                                
                                  And she sproong as a Colt dooth in the Traue
                                
                                  And with hir heed / she wryed faste awey
                                
                                  She seyde I wol nat kisse thee by my fey
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                                  Wy lat be quod ich / lat be Nicholas
                                
                                  Or I wol crye / out harrow and allas
                                
                                  Do wey youre handes / for youre curteisye [folio 43b] 
                                
                                  ¶ This Nicholas / gan mercy for to crye
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                                  And spak so faire / and profred hym so faste
                                
                                  That she hir loue / hym graunted atte laste,

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 94
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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