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

                                
                                  Bolde was hir face and faire and rede of hewe
                                
                                  Sche was a worþe womman al hir lyue
                                
                                  Hosbondes att þe cherche dore sche had five .
                                  Line 460 
                                
                                  Wiþ owten oþer company in hir ȝouþe
                                
                                  Bot þere-of nedeþ nouht to speke as nouþe
                                
                                  An þries had sche be att Ierusalem [folio 7b] 
                                
                                  Sche had passed many a strange streme
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                                  Att Rome sche had bene att Boloyne
                                
                                  In Galis att seinte Iame and att Coloyngne
                                
                                  Sche couþe muche on wandrynge be þe weie
                                
                                  Gate toþede was sche sothely for to seye
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                                  Vpon an Amblere ful esely sche satte
                                
                                  . Y-wymplede wele and one hir heued an hatte
                                
                                  As brode as is a bokelere or elles a targe
                                
                                  A fotmantil a-boute hir hippes large
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                                  And on hir feet a paire of spores scharpe
                                
                                  In felauschepe wele couþe sche lawghe and carpe
                                
                                  Of remedies of loue sche couþe parchaunce
                                
                                  ffor sche couthe of þat arte þe colde daunce
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                                  ¶ A goode man was þere of religione
                                
                                  And was a poure persone of a toune
                                
                                  Bot riche he was of holy þouht and werke
                                
                                  He was also a lernede man and a clerke
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                                  Þat crist gospell trewly wolde preche
                                
                                  His parisshins deuowtely wolde he teche
                                
                                  Benygne he was and wonder diligente
                                
                                  And in aduersite ful paciente
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                                  And suche he was preuede oft sithes
                                
                                  fful loþe were him to cursen for his tiþes
                                
                                  Bot raþer wolde he ȝeuen owte of doute
                                
                                  Vnto his pouer perisshens aboute
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                                  Of his Offringe and of his substance
                                
                                  He couþe in litel þinge haue suffisance
                                
                                  Wyde was his parisshe and houses fer in sondere
                                
                                  Bot he ne left nowtht for reyne ne for þondere
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                                  In sekenes nor in Meschef to visite

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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 14
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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