Bold was hir face and fair and reed of heewe
Sche was a worþy womman al hire lyfe
Housbondes atte chirche dore hadde sche fyfe
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withouten oþur companye in ȝouthe
But therof needeth nouȝt to speke as nouthe
And þries hadde sche ben at Ierusalem
Sche hadde passud many a straunge streem
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At Rome sche hadde ben and at Boloyne
In Galice at seynt Iame and at Coloyne
Sche cowde moche of wandryng by þe weye
Gattothud was sche soþly for to seye
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vppon an amblere esely sche sat
wymplid ful wel and on hire heed an hat
As brood as is a bocler or a Targe
A foot mantel aboute hire hupes large
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And on hire feet a paire of spores scharpe
In felawschipe wel cowde lawghe and carpe
Of Remedyes of loue sche knew par chaunce
For of þat art sche knew þe olde daunce
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A Good man was ther of Religioun
And was a pore persoun of a toun
But riche he was of holy þought and werk
He was also a lerned man a Clerk
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That cristes gospel gladly wolde preche
His parischens deuoutly wold he teche
Benigne he was and wondur diligent
And in aduersite ful pacient
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And such he was I-proued ofte sithes
Ful loth were him to curse for his tythes
But raþer wolde he ȝeuen out of dowte
vnto his pore parisschens aboute
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Of his offrynge and eek of his substaunce
he cowde in litel þing han suffisance
wyd was his parisch and houses fer asondur
But he ne lafte not for reyn ne þondur
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In siknesse ne in meschief to visite
