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

                                
                                  Boold was hir face / and fair and reed of hewe
                                
                                  She was a worthy womman / al hir lyue
                                
                                  Housbondes at chirche dore / she hadde fyue
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                                  With outen oother compaignye / in yowthe
                                
                                  But ther of / nedeth noght to speke as nowthe
                                
                                  And thries / hadde she been at Ierusalem
                                
                                  She hadde passed / many a straunge strem
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                                  At Rome she hadde been / and at Boloyne
                                
                                  In Galyce at Seint Iame / and at Coloyne
                                
                                  She koude muchel / of wandrynge by the weye
                                
                                  Gattothed was she / soothly for to seye
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                                  Vp on an Amblere / esily she sat
                                
                                  Ywympled wel / and on hir heed an hat
                                
                                  As brood as is / a Bokeler / or a Targe [folio 8a] 
                                
                                  A foot mantel / aboute hir hypes large
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                                  And on hir feet a peyre of spores sharpe
                                
                                  In felaweshipe / wel koude she laughe. and carpe
                                
                                  Of remedies of loue / she knew par chaunce
                                
                                  ffor she koude of that art the olde daunce
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                                  ¶ A good man / was ther / of Religioun
                                
                                  And was a poure parson / of a toun [Parson of a town.] 
                                
                                  But riche he was / of holy thoght and werk
                                
                                  He was also / a lerned man a Clerk
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                                  That Cristes gospel / trewely wolde preche
                                
                                  His parisshens / deuoutly wolde he teche
                                
                                  Benygne he was / and wonder diligent
                                
                                  And in aduersitee / ful pacient
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                                  And swich he was proeued / ofte sythes
                                
                                  fful looth weere hym / to cursen for his tythes
                                
                                  But rather wolde he yeuen / out of doute
                                
                                  Vn to his poure parisshens aboute
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                                  Of his offrynge / and eek of his substaunce
                                
                                  He koude in litel thyng haue suffisaunce
                                
                                  Wyd was his parisshe / and houses fer a sonder
                                
                                  But he ne lafte noght for reyn ne thonder
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                                  In siknesse / nor in meschief to visite

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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 14
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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