The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  and karf biforn his fader atte table
                                  Line 100 
                                
                                  A ȝeman hadde he and seruantes namo
                                
                                  At þat time for him liste ride so
                                
                                  And he was clad in coote and hood of greene
                                
                                  A scheef of pocok arwes bright and keene
                                  Line 104 
                                
                                  Vnder his belt he bar ful þriftily
                                
                                  Wel couþe he dresse his takel ȝimanly
                                
                                  His arwes drouped nought wiþ fetheres lowe
                                
                                  And in his hond he bar a mighty bowe
                                  Line 108 
                                
                                  A not-hed hadde he wiþ a broun visage [folio 2b] 
                                
                                  Of woode-craft wel couþe he al þe vsage
                                
                                  Vpon his arm he bar a gay bracer
                                
                                  And by his syde a swerd and a bocler
                                  Line 112 
                                
                                  And on þat oþer side a gay daggere
                                
                                  Harnaysed wel and scharp as point of spere
                                
                                  A Christophre on his brest of seluer schene
                                
                                  An horn he bar þe bawdrik was of grene
                                  Line 116 
                                
                                  A foster was he soþly as I gesse
                                
                                  Ther was also a Nonne a Prioresse
                                
                                  That of hir smyling was ful symple a[nd] coy
                                
                                  Hir grettest oþ was but by seint loy
                                  Line 120 
                                
                                  And sche was cleped ma dame Englentyne
                                
                                  ffol wel sche song þe seruise diuine
                                
                                  Entuned in hir nose ful semely
                                
                                  And frenssch sche spak ful faire and fetisly
                                  Line 124 
                                
                                  After þe scole of stratford atte Bowe
                                
                                  ffor ffrenssh of Parys was to hire vnknowe
                                
                                  At mete wel I-taught was sche wiþ-all
                                
                                  Sche leet no morsell from hire lippes falle
                                  Line 128 
                                
                                  Ne wete hire fyngres in hir sauce deepe
                                
                                  Wel couþe sche carie a morsel and wel keepe /
                                
                                  That no drope ne fell vpon hir breste
                                
                                  In Curtesye was sette ful moche hire leste
                                  Line 132 
                                
                                  Hir ouer lippe wyped sche so cleene
                                
                                  That in hir cuppe þer was no ferthing seene
                                
                                  Of grete whan sche dronken hadde hir draughte

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 4
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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