The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  And carf biforn his fader / at the table
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                                  ¶ A Yeman he hadde / and seruantz namo [Yeman.] 
                                
                                  At that tyme / for hym liste ryde so
                                
                                  And he was clad / in coote and hood of greene
                                
                                  A sheef of Pecok arwes / bright and keene
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                                  Vnder his belt he bar ful thriftily
                                
                                  Wel koude he dresse his takel yemanly
                                
                                  His arwes drowped noght with fetheres lowe
                                
                                  And in his hand / he bar a myghty bowe
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                                  A not heed hadde he / with a broun visage
                                
                                  Of wodecraft / koude he wel al the vsage
                                
                                  Vp on his arm / he bar a gay bracer
                                
                                  And by his syde / a swerd and a Bokeler
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                                  And on that oother syde / a gay daggere [folio 3b] 
                                
                                  Harneysed wel / and sharpe / as poynt of spere
                                
                                  A Cristofre on his brest of siluer sheene
                                
                                  An horn he bar / the bawdryk was of greene
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                                  A fforster was he / soothly as I gesse
                                
                                  ¶ Ther was also / a Nonne a Prioresse [Prioresse.] 
                                
                                  That of hir smylyng was ful symple and coy
                                
                                  Hir gretteste ooth / was but by Seint Loy
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                                  And she was clepyd / madame Eglentyne
                                
                                  fful wel she soong the seruyce dyuyne,
                                
                                  Entuned in hir nose / ful semely
                                
                                  And frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly
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                                  After the scole / of Stratford at the Bowe
                                
                                  ffor frenssh of Parys / was to hire vnknowe
                                
                                  At mete / wel ytaught was she with alle
                                
                                  She leet no morsel / from hir lyppes falle
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                                  Ne wette hir fyngres / in hir sauce deepe
                                
                                  Wel koude she carye a morsel / and wel keepe
                                
                                  That no drope / fille vp on hir brist
                                
                                  In curteisye / was set muchel hir list
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                                  Hir ouer lyppe / wyped she so cleene
                                
                                  That in hir coppe / ther was no ferthyng seene
                                
                                  Of grece / whan she dronken hadde hir draghte

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 4
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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