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

                                
                                  And karf to-for his fader att þe table
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                                  A ȝoman had he and seruantes no moo
                                
                                  Att þat time for him liste ride soo
                                
                                  And he was cladde in cote and hoode of grene
                                
                                  A scheef of pokoke arwes briht and kene
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                                  Vnder his belte he bare ful þreftelie
                                
                                  Wele couþe he drese his takel ȝemonlie
                                
                                  His arwes drouped nouht wiþ feþeres lowe
                                
                                  And in his honde he bare a myhti bowe
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                                  A notte hede had he wiþ a broune visage
                                
                                  Of wodecraft wele couþe he al þe vsage
                                
                                  Vpon his arme he bare a gaie brasere
                                
                                  And be his side a swerde and a bokelere
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                                  And on þat oþere side a gaie daggere.
                                
                                  Herneyste wele and scharpe as þe pointe of a spere.
                                
                                  A christofur on his breste of siluer schene.
                                
                                  An horne he bare þe bawdrik was of grene
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                                  A forster was he soþelye as .I. gesse.
                                
                                  ¶ Thare was also a Nonne a Prioresse
                                
                                  That of hir smyleynge was ful simple and coye
                                
                                  Her grettest oþe was bot be seint Loye.
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                                  And sche was cleped Madame Englentyne
                                
                                  fful wele sche songe þe seruise deuine
                                
                                  Entuned in hir nose ful semely.
                                
                                  And franche sche spake ful faire and fetisly
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                                  After þe scole att Stretford att Bowe
                                
                                  ffor frenche of Paris was to hire vnknowe
                                
                                  Att mete wele ytauhte was sche with-all [folio 3b] 
                                
                                  Sche lete no morsel fro hir lippes fall
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                                  Ne wete hir fingeres in hir sauce depe
                                
                                  Wele couþe sche cary a morsel and wel kepe
                                
                                  þat no drope ne fel vpon hir breste
                                
                                  In curtesie was sette ful muchel her leste
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                                  Hir ouere-lippe sche wyped so clene
                                
                                  That in hir coppe þer was no fat þinge sene
                                
                                  Of grece whan sche had dronken hir drawhte

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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 4
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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