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

                                
                                  fful semelye after hir mete sche rawhte.
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                                  And sekerly sche was of grete disporte.
                                
                                  And ful plesant and ful amyable of porte
                                
                                  And peyned hir to counterfet chere
                                
                                  Of Courte and to be stalyche of Manere
                                  Line 140 
                                
                                  And to be holden digne of reuerence
                                
                                  Bot for to speke of hire Conscience
                                
                                  Sche was so charitable and so pytous.
                                
                                  Sche wolde wepe ȝif þat sche sawe a mouse
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                                  Kauht in a trape if it ware dede or bledde
                                
                                  Of smale houndes had sche þat sche fedde
                                
                                  Wiþ rostede flesche or melke or wastel brede
                                
                                  Bot sore wepped sche if one of hem were dede
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                                  Or if men smote it wiþ a ȝerde smart
                                
                                  And al was conscience and tendur herte
                                
                                  fful semely hir wympul pinched was
                                
                                  Hire nose was streihte her yhen was grei as glas
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                                  Hire mouþe ful smal. and þere-to soft and rede
                                
                                  Bot sekurly sche had a faire forhede
                                
                                  It was al-moste a spanne brode .I. trowe
                                
                                  ffor hardely sche was nouhte vnder growe
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                                  fful fetis was hir cloke as .I. was war
                                
                                  Of smale coral aboute hir harme sche bar
                                
                                  A peire of Bedes gauded al wiþ grene
                                
                                  And þere-one honge a broche of golde ful schene
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                                  On whiche þare was firste wreten wiþ a crowned .A.
                                
                                  And After Amor vincit omnia.
                                
                                  ¶ A noþer nonne wyþ hir had sche
                                
                                  þat was hir Chapeleyne and prestes þre
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                                  A monke þere was a faire for þe maistre
                                
                                  An owte-rider þat loued venere
                                
                                  A manly man to bene an Abbot Able
                                
                                  fful mony a daynte hors hade he in stable
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                                  And whanne he rode men myht his bridele here [folio 4a] 
                                
                                  Gyngelinge in a whistelinge wynde al so clere
                                
                                  And eke as lowde as doþe þe chapel belle

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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 5
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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