The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  fful brightere was the shynyng / of hire hewe
                                
                                  Than in the Tour / the noble I-forged newe
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                                  But of hire song / it was as loude / and ȝerne
                                
                                  As ony swalwe / sittyng on a berne
                                
                                  Ther-to she coude skyp / and make game
                                
                                  As ony kydde or calf / folwyng his dame
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                                  Hire mouth was swete / as braket or the meth
                                
                                  Or hoord of apples / leyd in hey or heth
                                
                                  Wynsyng she was / as is a ioly colt
                                
                                  long as a mast / and vp-right as a bolt
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                                  A broche she bar / vp-on hire lowe coler
                                
                                  As brod / as is the boos / of a bokeler
                                
                                  hire shoes were laced / on hire legges heye
                                
                                  She was a prymerole / a Pyggesnye
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                                  ffor any lord / to leggen in his bedde
                                
                                  Or ȝet / for ony good ȝemman / to wedde
                                
                                  ¶ . Now sire and eft sire / so byfel the cas
                                
                                  That on a day / þis hende Nicholas
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                                  ffel with þis ȝong wyf / to rage and pleye
                                
                                  While that hire husbond / was at Osneye
                                
                                  As clerkis ben ful sotil / and ful queynt
                                
                                  And preuyly / he caught hire / by the queynt [folio 41a] 
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                                  And seide I-wysse / but ich haue my wylle
                                
                                  ffor derne loue / of the lemman / I spille
                                
                                  And held hire harde / by the haunche bones
                                
                                  And seide lemman / loue me al at ones
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                                  Or I wol deyen / also god me saue
                                
                                  And she sprong / as a colt doth in a traue
                                
                                  And with hire hed / she wryed fast a-wey
                                
                                  She seyde / I wol nat kysse the / be my fey
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                                  We lat be quod ich / lat be Nicholas
                                
                                  Or I wol crie / ouȝt herrowe / and allas
                                
                                  Do wey ȝoure handes / for ȝoure curteisie
                                
                                  ¶ . This Nicholas / gan mercy for to crye
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                                  And spak so faire / and profred him so faste
                                
                                  That she hire loue / hym graunted at the laste

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 94
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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