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

                                
                                  With his tipet wounden aboute his heed
                                
                                  And she cam after / in a gyte of reed
                                
                                  And Symkyn / hadde hosen of the same
                                
                                  Ther dorste no wight clepen hire but dame
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                                  Was noon so hardy / þat wente by the weye
                                
                                  That with hire / dorste rage / or ones pleye
                                
                                  But if he / wolde be slayn of Symkyn
                                
                                  With panade / or with knyf or boydekyn
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                                  ffor Ialous folk / been perilouse eueremo
                                
                                  Algate / they wolde hir wyues wenden so
                                
                                  And eek / for she was som del smoterlich [folio 52a] 
                                
                                  She was as diyne / as water in a dich
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                                  And ful of hoker / and of bismare
                                
                                  Hir thoghte / þat a lady sholde hir spare
                                
                                  What for hir kynrede / and hir nortelrye
                                
                                  That she hadde lerned / in the Nonnerye
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                                  A doghter hadde they / bitwix hem two
                                
                                  Of twenty yeer / with outen any mo
                                
                                  Sauyng a child / þat was of hal[f] yeer age
                                
                                  In Cradel it lay and was a propre page
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                                  This wenche / thikke and wel ygrowen was
                                
                                  With camuse nose / and eyen greye as glas
                                
                                  With buttokes brode / and brestes rounde and hye
                                
                                  But right fair was hir heer / I wol nat lye
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                                  ¶ The person of the toun / for she was so feir
                                
                                  In purpos was / to maken hire his heir
                                
                                  Bothe of his catel / and his Mesuage.
                                
                                  And straunge he made it of hir mariage
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                                  His purpos was / for to bistowe hir hye
                                
                                  In to som worthy blood of Auncetrye
                                
                                  ffor holicherches good / moot been despended
                                
                                  On holicherches blood / þat is descended
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                                  Ther-fore he wolde his holy blood honoure
                                
                                  Thogh þat he / holy chirche sholde deuoure
                                
                                  ¶ Greet sokne / hath this Millere out of doute
                                
                                  With whete and malt of al the lande aboute

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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 114
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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