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

                                
                                     [6-text p 306] 
                                  
                                  Beth war þat by ensample of ȝoure lyuynge
                                
                                  Ouþer by necgligence in chastisynge
                                
                                  That þay ne perische for I dar wel seye
                                
                                  If þat þay doon ȝe schul ful sore abeye
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                                  vnder a schepherd softe and necligent
                                
                                  The wolf haþ many a schep and lamb torent
                                
                                  Sufficeþ oon ensample now as here
                                
                                  For I moot turne aȝein to my matiere
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                                  This mayde of which I telle my tale expresse
                                
                                  So kept hir self hir neded no maystresse [folio 183a] 
                                
                                  For in hir lyuyng maydens mighte rede
                                
                                  As in a book euery good word and dede /
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                                  That longeþ vnto a mayden vertuous
                                
                                  Sche was so prudent and so bounteous
                                
                                  For þe which out sprong on euery syde /
                                
                                  Boþe of hir beaute and bounte wyde
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                                  That þurgh þe lond þay praysed hir ilkoone /
                                
                                  That louede vertu saue enuye alloone /
                                
                                  That sory is of oþer mennes wele /
                                
                                  And glad is of his sorwe and vnhele
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                                  The doctor made þis descripcioun
                                
                                  This mayde wente vpon a day in to þe toun
                                
                                  Toward þe temple with hir moder deere
                                
                                  As is of ȝonge maydenes þe manere
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                                  Now was þer a Iustice in þe toun
                                
                                  That gouernour was of þat Regioun
                                
                                  And so bifel þis Iuge his eyȝen cast
                                
                                  Vpon þis mayde auysing hir ful fast
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                                  As sche cam forby þer þe Iuge stood
                                
                                  Anoon his herte chaunged and his mood
                                
                                  So was he caught wiþ beaute of þis mayde
                                
                                  And to himself ful priuely he sayde
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                                  This mayde schal be myn for any man
                                
                                  Anoon þe feend in to his herte ran
                                
                                  And taughte him sodeinly by what slighte
                                
                                  This mayde to his purpos wynne he mighte /

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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 418
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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