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 ...

                                
                                  with his typet wounde / a-boute his hede
                                
                                  And she cam after / in a gyte of rede
                                
                                  And Symkyn had hosen / of the same
                                
                                  There durst no wyght / clepen hire but dame
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                                  was no so hardy / that went by the weye
                                
                                  That with hire durst rage / or ellis pleye
                                
                                  But if he wolde be slayn / of Symkyn
                                
                                  with panade / or with knyf / or boydekyn
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                                  ffor ielous folk / ben perilous euere mo
                                
                                  Algate they wold / here wyues wend so
                                
                                  And eke for she was / somdel smoterlich
                                
                                  She was as deigne / as water in a dich
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                                  So ful of hoker / and of bysmare
                                
                                  Hire þouȝt that a lady / shuld hire spare
                                
                                  what for hire kynrede / and hire norturye
                                
                                  That she had lerned / in the Nonnerye
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                                  ¶ . A doughter had they / bytwix hem two
                                
                                  Of twenty ȝere / with-outen ony mo
                                
                                  Sauyng a child / þat was of half ȝere age
                                
                                  In cradel it lay / and was a propre page
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                                  This wenche thikke / & wel I-growen was
                                
                                  with camuse nose / and eyen greye as glas
                                
                                  with bottokes brode / and brestes rounde & heye
                                
                                  But right fair was hire her / I wol nat lye
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                                  ¶ . The Parson of the toun / for she was fair
                                
                                  In purpose was / to maken hire his eyr
                                
                                  Bothe of his catel / and his mesuage
                                
                                  And straunge he mad it / of hire mariage
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                                  his purpos was / for to bystowen hire heye
                                
                                  In-to som worthy blode / of Auncetrye
                                
                                  ffor holy chirche good / mot ben dispended
                                
                                  On holy chirche blod / that is descended
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                                  Therfore he wolde / his holy blod honoure
                                
                                  Though þat he / holy chirche / shuld deuoure
                                
                                  ¶ . Gret soken had this Millere / out of doute
                                
                                  with whete / and malt / of al the lond a-boute

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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 114
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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