(714)
¶ Al-þogh his lyfe be queynt, þe résemblaunce [In the MS. Chaucer's carefully drawn and colourd likeness is in the right margin. At the top of the much commoner full-length figure in the left margin of MS. Reg. 17 D 6, is "¶ Chaucers yn age."]
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Of him haþ in me so fressh lyflynesse,
Þat, to putte othir men in rémembraunce
Of his persóne, I haue heere his lyknesse
Do makë, to þis ende in sothfastnesse,
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Þat þei þat haue of him lest [lost R.] þought & mynde,
By þis peynturë may ageyn him fynde.[figure]
[Grass-green background, black hood and gown, gray hair, hazel eyes, red lips, paleish face and hands; black beads and penner on red strings.]
(715)
¶ The ymages þat in þe chirchë been,
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Maken folk þenke on god & on his seyntes,
Whan þe ymáges þei be-holden & seen;
Were oft vnsyte [Wher as vnsight R.] of hem causith restreyntes
Of þoughtës godë: whan a þing depeynt is,
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Or éntailëd, if men take of it heede,
Thoght of þe lyknesse, it wil in hem [hem R, hym H.] brede.
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