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

                                
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                                  My lord and I ben fully at acord
                                
                                  I made hire to þe worschip of my lord
                                
                                  So do I alle myn oþre creatures
                                
                                  Of what colour þey be or what figures
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                                  Thus semeþ me þat nature wolde say
                                
                                  This mayde was of age .xij. ȝeer and tway
                                
                                  In which þat nature haþ such delyt
                                
                                  ffor right as sche can paynte as lily whit
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                                  And rody as rose right wiþ such peynture
                                
                                  Sche peynted haþ þis noble creature /
                                
                                  Er sche was born vppon hire lymes fre
                                
                                  Were also bright as such colours scholde be /
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                                  And Phebus dyed haþ his tresses grete
                                
                                  like to þe stremes of his boornyd hete
                                
                                  And if þat excellent was hire beaute
                                
                                  A þousend fold more vertuous was sche
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                                  In hire ne lakkeþ no condicion
                                
                                  þat is to preise as by discrecion
                                
                                  As wel in body as gost chaste was sche
                                
                                  ffor which sche floured in virginite
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                                  Wiþ alle humilite and abstinence
                                
                                  Wiþ alle attemperance and pacience
                                
                                  Wiþ mesure eek and beryng of array
                                
                                  Discret sche was in answering alway
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                                  þough sche were wys as Pallas dar I seyn [folio 191b] 
                                
                                  hire faucond eek ful wommanly and pleyn
                                
                                  None counterfeted termes hadde sche
                                
                                  To seme wys but after hire degre
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                                  Sche spak and alle hire wordes more and lesse
                                
                                  Sownyng in vertue and in gentillesse
                                
                                  Schamefast sche was in maydens schamefastnesse
                                
                                  Constant in herte and euere in busynesse
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                                  To dryue hire oute of hire slogardye
                                
                                  Bachus hadde of hir mouþ no maystrie
                                
                                  ffor will and þought doon venus encrece
                                
                                  As men in fyr wol casten oyle or grece /

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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 426
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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