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

                                
                                     [6-text p 306] 
                                  
                                  Beþe ware þat be ensample of ȝoure leueinge
                                
                                  Eyþer be necligence in chastisinge
                                
                                  þat þei ne perische for .I. dare wele seie
                                
                                  Ȝif þat þei done ȝe schol ful sore abye
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                                  Vnder a scheperd soft and necligent
                                
                                  þe wolf haþ mony a schepe and lamme to-rent
                                
                                  Sufficit one ensample nowe as here
                                
                                  For .I. most torne aȝeine to matiere
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                                  This maide of whiche .y tel my tale expresse
                                
                                  Sche kepped hir self sche neded no maistresse
                                
                                  For in hire leueynge maydens myht rede
                                
                                  As in a boke euery good worde and dede
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                                  þat longeþ to a mayden vertuous
                                
                                  Sche was so prudent and so bounteuous
                                
                                  For whiche oute spronge on euery side
                                
                                  Boþe of hir beute and hire bounte wide
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                                  þat þoruhe þe londe þei presede hire ychon
                                
                                  þat loued verteus saue envye alone
                                
                                  þat sory is of oþer mennes wele
                                
                                  And gladde is of his sorwe and vnhele [folio 171a] 
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                                  The doctour makeþ þis descripcioune
                                
                                  This maide went on a daie in-to þe toune
                                
                                  To-warde þe temple wiþ hir moder dere
                                
                                  As is of ȝonge Maidens þe manere
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                                  Nowe was þer a Iustice in þe toune
                                
                                  þat gouernour was of þat regioune
                                
                                  And so befel þis Iuge his eyȝen kast
                                
                                  Vppon þis maide aviseinge hire ful fast
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                                  As sche cam forþ by þere þe Iuge stode
                                
                                  Anone his hert chaungeþ and his moode
                                
                                  So was he cauht wiþ þe beaute of þis maide
                                
                                  And to him self ful priuely he seide
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                                  This maiden schal be myne for any man
                                
                                  Anone þe fende in to his hert ran
                                
                                  And tauht him sodanly be what sleyht
                                
                                  The maiden to his purpos wynne he myht

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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 429
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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