The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  With hese typet boundyn a-boutyn hese hed
                                
                                  And sche come aftyr in a gite of red
                                
                                  And symkyn hadde hosyn of the same
                                
                                  Ther durste no wygh clepyn here but dame
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                                  Was non hardy þat wente be þe weye [folio 187a] 
                                
                                  That durste with here rage or onys pleye
                                
                                  But ȝif he wolde be slayn of symkyn
                                
                                  With panade or knyf or boytekyn
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                                  ffor Ielous folk ben perelous euere mo
                                
                                  Algate þey wolde here wyuys wenden so
                                
                                  And ek for sche was sumwhat smotyrlych
                                
                                  Sche was as dygne as watyr In a dich
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                                  And ful of hokyr & of bismerye
                                
                                  Sche thoughte þat a lady schulde here spareye
                                
                                  What for here kynrede & here Norterye
                                
                                  That sche hadde lerned in þe nunnerye
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                                  A doughtyr hadde þey be-twixe hem too
                                
                                  Of twenty ȝer with-outyn ony moo
                                
                                  Sauynge a chyld þat was of sene ȝer age
                                
                                  In cradil it lay & was a propere page
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                                  This wenche thikke & wel I-growyn was
                                
                                  With cammuse nose & eyen greye as glas
                                
                                  Buttokkys brode & brestis rounde & hye
                                
                                  But rygh fayr was here her I wele not lye
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                                  This persoun of the toun for sche was so fayr
                                
                                  In purpos was to makyn here hese eyr
                                
                                  But of hese catel & hese mesewage
                                
                                  And straunge he made it of here maryge
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                                  Hese purpos was for to be-stowe here hye
                                
                                  In to sum worthi blod of aunceterye
                                
                                  ffor holicherche good / mote ben dispendit
                                
                                  On holy cherchis blod / þat is dessendit
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                                  Þerfore he wolde / hese holy blod honoure
                                
                                  Thow þat he holy cherche / schulde devoure
                                
                                  Gret sokene hath / this mellere out of doute
                                
                                  With whete & malt / of al the lond a-boute

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 114
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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