With his typet / [y]bounde about his heed
And she cam after / in a gyte of reed
And Symkyn / hadde hosen of the same
Ther dorste no wight / clepen hire but dame
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Was noon so hardy / that wente by the weye
That with hire / dorste rage / or ones pleye
But if / he wolde be slayn of Symkyn
With panade / or with knyf / or boidekyn
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ffor Ialous folk / ben perilous eueremo
Algate / they wolde hire wyues wenden so
And eek / for she was somdel smoterlich
She was as digne / as water in a dich
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As ful of hoker / and of bismare
Hir thoughte / þat a lady sholde hire spare
What for hire kynrede / and hir nortelrie
That she hadde lerned in the Nonnerie
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¶ A doghter hadde they bitwixe hem two
Of twenty yeer / with-outen any mo
Sauynge a child / þat was of half yeer age
In Cradel it lay / and was a propre page
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This wenche thikke / and wel ygrowen was
With kamuse nose / and eyen greye as glas
Buttokes brode / and brestes rounde and hye
But right fair was hire heer / I wol nat lye
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¶ This person of the toun / for she was feir
In purpos was / to maken hire his heir
Bothe of his catel / and his Mesuage [folio 47a]
And straunge / he made it of hir mariage
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His purpos was / for to bistowe hire hye
In to som worthy blood of Auncetrye
ffor hooly chirches good / moot been despended
On hooly chirches blood / that is descended
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Therfore / he wolde his hooly blood honoure
Though / that he hooly chirche sholde devoure
Gret sokene / hath this Millere / out of doute
With whete and Malt of al the land aboute
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