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

                                
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                                  Beth war / if by ensample of youre lyuynge
                                
                                  Or by youre necligence / in chastisynge
                                
                                  That they perisse / for I dar wel seye
                                
                                  If þat they doon / ye shul it deere abeye
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                                  Vnder a Shepherde / softe and necligent
                                
                                  The wolf hath many a sheepe / and lomb to-rent
                                
                                  Suffiseth oon ensample / now as heere
                                
                                  ffor I moot turne agayn to my matere
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                                  ¶ This mayde of which / I wol this tale expresse
                                
                                  So kepte hir self hir neded no maistresse
                                
                                  ffor in hir lyuyng maydens myghten rede
                                
                                  As in a book euery good word / or dede
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                                  That longeth / to a mayden vertuous
                                
                                  She was so prudent and so bounteuous
                                
                                  ffor which the fame out sproong on euery syde
                                
                                  Bothe of hir beautee / and hir bountee / wyde
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                                  That thurgh that land / they preysed hire echone
                                
                                  That loued vertu / saue enuye allone
                                
                                  That sory is / of oother mennes wele [¶ Augustinus.] 
                                
                                  And glad is / of his sorwe / and his vnheele
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                                  The doctor / maketh this discripcioun [folio 193a] 
                                
                                  This mayde / vp-on a day / wente in the toun
                                
                                  Toward a temple / with hir moder deere
                                
                                  As is / of yonge maydens the manere
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                                  ¶ Now was ther thanne / a Iustice in that toun
                                
                                  That gouernour was / of that Regioun
                                
                                  And so bifel / this Iuge hise eyen caste
                                
                                  Vp-on this mayde / auysynge hym ful faste
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                                  As she cam forby / ther as this Iuge stood
                                
                                  Anoon his herte chaunged / and his mood
                                
                                  So was he caught with beautee of this mayde
                                
                                  And to hym self / ful pryuely he sayde
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                                  This mayde shal be myn / for any man
                                
                                  Anon the feend / in-to his herte ran
                                
                                  And taughte hym sodeynly / þat he by slyghte
                                
                                  This mayden / to his purpos wynne myghte

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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 443
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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