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

                                
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                                  My lord/ and I ben fully at accorde [[Sloane MS 1635]] 
                                
                                  I made hir/ to þe worshipe of my lord
                                
                                  So do I alle myne oþere creatures·
                                
                                  Of what coloure þei be or what figures
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                                  þus semethe me þat nature wolle say
                                
                                  This mayde was of/ age twelue ȝeere & twey
                                
                                  In whiche þat nature hath suche delyte
                                
                                  For riȝt/ as she can peynte as lyly white
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                                  And rudy as roose riȝt with suche paynture
                                
                                  She paynteth hath þis noble creature
                                
                                  Or she was borne vpon hir/ lymes fre
                                
                                  Were also bryȝt/ as suche coloures shuld be
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                                  And Phebus dyed hade hir/ tressys grete
                                
                                  Lyke to þe stremes of his bornyd heete
                                
                                  And ȝif þat excellent was hir/ beaute·
                                
                                  A þousand sithe more Vertuouse was she [Sloane MS 1685 folio 179a] 
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                                  In her/ ne lacked no condicioun
                                
                                  That/ ys to preyse as by discrecioun
                                
                                  As wele in body as goste Chast was she
                                
                                  ffor whiche she floured in Virgynite
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                                  With alle humilite and abstynence
                                
                                  With alle temperance & pacience
                                
                                  With mesure eke and berynge of array
                                
                                  Discrete she was in answerynge alway
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                                  Though she were wys as Pallas dar I sayne
                                
                                  hir/ faucond eke fulle womanly & pleyne
                                
                                  None counterfetid termes hade she
                                
                                  To seme wys but / aftyr/ hir/ degre
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                                  Sche spake alle hir/ wordes more and lesse
                                
                                  Sounynge in vertu and in gentilnesse
                                
                                  Constant in hert / and euere in besynesse
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                                  Schamefaste she was in maydens shamefastnesse
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                                  To dryue hir/ oute of hir/ slougardye
                                
                                  Bacus hade of/ hir/ mouthe no Maystrie
                                
                                  ffor wylle and þouȝt done Venus encrece
                                
                                  As men in fyre wille casten oyle or grece

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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 357
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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