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

                                
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                                  My lorde and .I. bene fullye att acorde
                                
                                  .I. maade hire to þe worschip of my lorde
                                
                                  So do .I. al myn oþere creatures
                                
                                  Of [what] colour þei bue or what figures
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                                  Thus semeþ me þat Nature wold seie
                                
                                  This maide was of age twelue ȝere and tweye
                                
                                  In whiche þat Nature haþe suche delite
                                
                                  For riht as sche kan peinte as lyle white [folio 170a] 
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                                  An[d] Rode as rose riht wiþ suche peinture
                                
                                  Sche peinted haþe þis noble creature
                                
                                  Ar sche was borne vppon hire limmes fre
                                
                                  Were als briht as suche coloures scholde be
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                                  And phebus hadd dyed hire tresses grete
                                
                                  Lyke to þe stremes of his burned hete
                                
                                  And if þat excellent was hire beute
                                
                                  A þousand folde mor vertuous was sche
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                                  In hire ne lakkeþ no condicione
                                
                                  þat is to preise as be discrecione
                                
                                  As wele in body . as goste chast was schee
                                
                                  For whiche sche floured in virginite
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                                  Wiþ al humilite and abstinence
                                
                                  And wiþ al attemperance and pacience
                                
                                  Wiþ mesure eke and bereinge of araie
                                
                                  Discrete sche was in ansewaringe alweie
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                                  þouhe sche were wise as pallas dar .I. seine
                                
                                  Hire faukonde eke ful wommanly and pleyne
                                
                                  None conterfeted termes hadde sche
                                
                                  To seme wise bot after hire degre
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                                  Sche spakk and al hir wordes more and lesse
                                
                                  Souneinge in vertue and in gentillesse
                                
                                  Schamefast sche was in maidens schamfastnesse
                                
                                  Constant in hert and euer in his besinesse
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                                  To dryue hire oute of hire slogardie
                                
                                  Bachus hadde of hire mouþe no maistre
                                
                                  For wil and þouht to done venus encrese
                                
                                  As men in fire wil kasten oyle or grese

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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 427
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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