fful semely / after hir mete she raughte
Line 136
And sikerly / she was of greet desport
And ful plesaunt / and amyable of port
And peyned hire to countrefete cheere
Of Court and to been estatlich of manere
Line 140
And to ben holden digne of reuerence
But for to speken of hire conscience
She was so charitable and so pitous
She wolde wepe / if that she saugh a Mous
Line 144
Kaught in a trappe / if it were deed or bledde [folio 6b]
Of smale houndes / hadde she þat she fedde
With rosted flessh / or Milk / and wastel breed
But soore wepte she / if any of hem were deed
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Or if men smoot it / with a yerde smerte
And al was conscience and tendre herte
fful semyly / hir wympul pynched was
Hire nose tretys / hir eyen greye as glas
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Hir mouth ful smal / and ther to softe and reed
But sikerly / she hadde a fair forheed
It was almoost . a spanne brood I trowe
ffor hardily / she was nat vndergrowe
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fful fetys was hir cloke / as I was war
Of smal coral / aboute hire Arm she bar
A peire of bedes / gauded al with grene
And ther on / heng a brooch of gold ful sheene
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On which / ther was first write a crowned .A.
And after / Amor vincit omnia.
Another Nonne / with hire hadde she [¶ Nonne & .iij. preestes.]
That was hire Chapeleyne and preestes thre
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A Monk ther was / a fair for the maistrie [¶ Monk/]
An outridere / that louede venerie
A manly man / to been an Abbot able
fful many a deyntee hors / hadde he in stable
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And whan he rood / men myghte his brydel heere
Gynglen / in a whistlynge wynd als cleere
And cek as loude / as dooth þe Chapel belle
