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

                                
                                  fful semely / after hir mete she raghte
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                                  And sikerly / she was of greet desport
                                
                                  And ful plesaunt and amyable of port
                                
                                  And peyned hire / to countrefete chiere
                                
                                  Of Court and been estatlich of manere
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                                  And to been holden / digne of reuerence
                                
                                  But for to speken / of hir conscience
                                
                                  She was so charitable / and so pitous
                                
                                  She wolde wepe / if þat she sawe a Mous
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                                  Caught in a trappe / if it weere deed / or bledde
                                
                                  Of smale houndes / hadde she / þat she fedde
                                
                                  With rosted flessh / or mylk / and wastel breed
                                
                                  But soore wepte she / if oon of hem weere deed
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                                  Or if men smoot it / with a yerde smerte
                                
                                  And al was conscience / and tendre herte
                                
                                  fful semely / hir wympel pynched was
                                
                                  Hir nose tretez / hir eyen / greye as glas
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                                  Hir mouth ful smal / and ther to / softe and reed [folio 4a] 
                                
                                  But sikerly / she hadde a fair forheed
                                
                                  It was almoost a spanne brood I trowe
                                
                                  ffor hardily / she was nat vndergrowe
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                                  fful fetys was hir cloke / as I was war
                                
                                  Of smal Coral / aboute hir arm she bar
                                
                                  A peyre of bedes / gauded al with greene
                                
                                  And ther on heeng a brooch of gold ful sheene
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                                  On which / was first writen / a crowned .A.
                                
                                  And after / amor vincit omnia.
                                
                                  ¶ Another Nonne / with hire hadde she, [Nonne Chap|eleyne and thre prestes.] 
                                
                                  That was hire Chapeleyne / and preestes thre.
                                
                                  ¶ A Monk ther was / a fair for the maystrye [Monk/.] 
                                
                                  An outrydere / that louede venerye
                                
                                  A manly man / to been an Abbot able
                                
                                  fful many a deyntee hors / hadde he in stable
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                                  And whanne he rood / men myghte his brydel heere
                                
                                  Gyngle in a whistlynge wynd / as cleere
                                
                                  And eek as loude / as dooth the Chapel belle

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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 5
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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