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

                                
                                  fful brihter was þe schineinge of hir hewe
                                
                                  Than in þe toure þe noble forgode newe
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                                  Bott of hir songe it was so lowde and ȝerne
                                
                                  As any swalowe Chiterynge on a berne
                                
                                  There-to sche couþe skippe and make a game
                                
                                  As any kide or calfe foloweynge his dame
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                                  Hir mouþe was swete as braket or þe meþe
                                
                                  Or horde of appeles layde in haye or heþe
                                
                                  Wynsinge sche was as a Ioli colte
                                
                                  Longe as a maste and vpriht as a bolte
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                                  A broche sche bare on hire loue colere
                                
                                  As brode as is þe boos of a bokelere
                                
                                  Hir schoes were laced on hir legges hihe
                                
                                  Sche was a primerol a pigges nye
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                                  ffor any lorde to liggen in his bedde
                                
                                  Or ȝit for any good ȝoman to wedde
                                
                                  ¶ Nowe sire and eft sire so be-fell þe cas
                                
                                  That on .a. daie þis hende Nicholas
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                                  ffil wiþ þis ȝonge wif to rage and to pleie
                                
                                  While þat hire husbond was att Osenaye
                                
                                  As clerkes ben ful sotel and ful wheinte
                                
                                  And priuelye he cauht hire be þe queynte
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                                  And seide. ywis bot if .I. haue my. will.
                                
                                  ffor derne loue of þe lemman .I. spill
                                
                                  And held hire harde be þe haunche bones
                                
                                  And seide lemman loue me wele att ones
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                                  Or .I. wille deyen also god me saue
                                
                                  And sche spronge as a colte doþ in þe traue
                                
                                  And wiþ hire hede sche wried fast a-waie
                                
                                  Sche seide .I. wil nouht kisse þe be my. faie
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                                  Whi labbe quod iche lat be nycholas
                                
                                  Or .I will crie out harrowe and alas
                                
                                  Do weie ȝoure hondes for ȝowre curtesie
                                
                                  This Nicholas gan mercie for to crie.
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                                  And spake so faire and proferd him so fast [folio 41a] 
                                
                                  That sche hire loue grauntide him att last

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Title: The Lansdowne 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,; 1867-1879.

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