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

                                
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                                  My lord and I ben fully at accord
                                
                                  I made hir to þe worschip of my lord
                                
                                  So do I alle myn oþer creatures
                                
                                  what colour þat þay been or what figures /
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                                  Thus semeþ me þat nature wolde say
                                
                                  This mayde was of age twelf ȝer and tway [folio 182a] 
                                
                                  In which þat nature haþ suche delite
                                
                                  For right as sche can peynte a lili white
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                                  And rody a rose right with such peynture
                                
                                  Sche peynted haþ þis noble creature
                                
                                  Er sche was born vpon her limes fre
                                
                                  were als bright as such colour schulde be
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                                  And phebus deyed hadde hire tresses grete
                                
                                  I-lyk to þe stremes of his borned hete
                                
                                  And if þat excellent was hir beaute
                                
                                  A þousand fold more vertuous was sche
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                                  And hire ne lakkeþ no condicioun
                                
                                  That is to preyse as by discrecioun
                                
                                  As wel in body as goost chaste was sche
                                
                                  For which sche floured in virginite
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                                  with alle humilite and abstinence
                                
                                  with alle attemperaunce and pacience
                                
                                  with mesure eek and beryng of array
                                
                                  Discret sche was in answeryng alway
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                                  Though sche were wis pallas dar I sayn
                                
                                  hir facound eek ful wommanly and playn
                                
                                  Noon countrefeted termes hadde sche
                                
                                  To seme wys but after hir degre
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                                  Sche spak and alle hire wordes more and lesse
                                
                                  Sovnyng in vertu and in gentilesse
                                
                                  Schamefast sche was in maydenes schamfastnesse
                                
                                  Constant in hert. and euer in besynesse
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                                  To dryue hire out of hir slogardye
                                
                                  Bachus had of hir mouþ no maistrye
                                
                                  For wille and þought doon venus encrece
                                
                                  As men in fuyr wil caste oyle or grece

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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 416
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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