The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  For brighter was þe smylyng of hir hewe
                                
                                  Than in þe tour þe noble I-forged newe
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                                  But of hir song it was as lowde and ȝerne
                                
                                  As eny swalwe chiteryng on a berne
                                
                                  Ther to sche cowde skippe and make game
                                
                                  As eny kyde or calf folowyng his dame
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                                  hir mouth was sweete as bragat is or meth
                                
                                  Or hoord of apples layd in hay or heth
                                
                                  wynsyng sche was as is a Ioly colt
                                
                                  long as a mast / and vpright as a bolt /
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                                  A broch sche bar vpon hir loue coleer
                                
                                  As brod as is þe bos of a bocleer
                                
                                  hir schos were laced / on hir legges heyȝe
                                
                                  Sche was a primerole [[a later & is put in here]]  a pigges neyȝe
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                                  For eny lord haue liggyng in his bedde
                                
                                  Or ȝet for eny good ȝeman to wedde
                                
                                  Now sir and eft sir / so bifel þe cas
                                
                                  That on a day þis heende Nicholas [folio 44a] 
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                                  Fil wiþ þis ȝonge wyf to rage and pleye
                                
                                  whil þat hir housbond was at Oseneye
                                
                                  As clerkes ben ful sotil and ful queynte
                                
                                  And pryuely he caught hir by þe queynte
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                                  And seyde I-wis but if I haue my wille
                                
                                  For derne loue of þe lemman I spille /
                                
                                  And heeld hir harde by þe haunche boones
                                
                                  And seyde lemman loue me al at ones
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                                  Or I wol dye as wisly god me saue
                                
                                  And sche sprang out / as doþ a colt/ in traue
                                
                                  And wiþ hir heed sche wried fast awey
                                
                                  I seyde I wol nat kisse þe by my fey
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                                  why let be quod sche / lat be þou nicholas /
                                
                                  Or I wol crye out harrow and allas
                                
                                  Do wey ȝour handes for ȝour curtesye
                                
                                  This nicholas gan mercy for to crye
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                                  And spak so faire and profred him so faste/
                                
                                  That sche hir loue him graunted atte laste /

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 94
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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