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

                                
                                  Bold was here face & fayr & red of hewe
                                
                                  Sche was a worthi woman al here lyue
                                
                                  Husbondis at cherche dore sche hadde fyue
                                  Line 460 
                                
                                  With-outyn oþere compayne in ȝouthe
                                
                                  But þerof nedith not to speke as nouthe
                                
                                  And thryes hadde sche ben at Ierusalem
                                
                                  Sche hadde passed manye a strong strem
                                  Line 464 
                                
                                  At rome she hadde ben & at boloyne
                                
                                  In galis at seynt Iame & at coloyne
                                
                                  Sche couthe meche of wonderyng be þe weye
                                
                                  Gat-toþed was sche sothly for to seye
                                  Line 468 
                                
                                  Vp-on an aumbelere ful esily sche sat [folio 138a] 
                                
                                  I-wympeled wel & on here hed an hat
                                
                                  As brod as is a bokeler or a targe
                                
                                  A fot-mental a-boute here hepis large
                                  Line 472 
                                
                                  And on here fet a peyre of sporys scharpe
                                
                                  In felauschepe wel coude sche lawe & carpe
                                
                                  Of remedijs of loue / sche knew per schaunce
                                
                                  ffor sche coude of that art / the olde daunse
                                  Line 476 
                                
                                  A good man was there of religioun [a Persoun] 
                                
                                  And was a pore persoun of a toun
                                
                                  But riche he was of holy thouȝt & werk
                                
                                  He was also a lerned man a clerk
                                  Line 480 
                                
                                  That cristis gospel trewely wolde teche
                                
                                  Hese parischiens deuoutly wolde he teche
                                
                                  Benyngne he was & wondyr delygent
                                
                                  And in aduersite ful pacient
                                  Line 484 
                                
                                  And swich he was preuyd ofte sythis
                                
                                  fful loth were hym to cursyn for hese tythis
                                
                                  But rathere wolde he ȝeuyn out of doute
                                
                                  Vnto hese pore parschens aboute
                                  Line 488 
                                
                                  Of hese offeryng & hese substau[n]ce
                                
                                  He couthe in lityl thyng han suffisiaunce
                                
                                  Wyd was hese parysch & housys fer asundir
                                
                                  But he ne lyfte not for reyn ne thondir
                                  Line 492 
                                
                                  In seknesse nor in myschif to visite

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

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