The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  Wiþ his typet wounden aboute his heede/
                                
                                  And sche cam after in a gyte of reede/
                                
                                  And Symkyn hadde hosen of þe same
                                
                                  Ther dorste no wight clepen hire but dame
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                                  Was non so hardy þat wente by þe way
                                
                                  That wiþ hire dorste or ones rage or play
                                
                                  But if he wolde be slain of Symkyn
                                
                                  With panade or with knyf or boydekyn [folio 56a] 
                                
                                  ffor Ielous folk ben perilous eueremo
                                
                                  Algate þei wolde here wyues wenden so
                                
                                  And eek for sche was somdel smoterlich
                                
                                  Sche was as digne as water in a dich
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                                  As ful of hoker and of bisemare
                                
                                  hire þoughte þat a lady schulde hir spare
                                
                                  What for hire kynrede and hire nortelrie
                                
                                  That sche hadde lerned in þe nonnerie
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                                  A doughter hadde þe betwixe hem tuo
                                
                                  Of twenty ȝer wiþouten eny moo
                                
                                  Sauyng a childe þat was of half ȝeer age
                                
                                  In cradel it lay it was a proper page/
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                                  This wenche þikke and wel ygrowen was
                                
                                  Wiþ Camoys nose and eyen grey as glas
                                
                                  Wiþ buttokes brode and brestes rounde and hye
                                
                                  But right fair was hire heer I wol nought lye
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                                  ¶ The parson of þe toun for sche was fair
                                
                                  In purpos was to maken hire his hair
                                
                                  Boþe of his catel and his mesuage
                                
                                  And strange he made it/ of hire mariage
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                                  his purpos was for to bistowe hire hye
                                
                                  In to som worþi blood of auncetrie/
                                
                                  ffor holy chirches good moot ben dispended
                                
                                  On holy cherche blood þat is descended
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                                  Therfore he wolde his holy blood honoure/
                                
                                  þough þat þe holy chirche scholde deuoure
                                
                                  Gret soken haþ þis meller out of doute
                                
                                  Wiþ whete and malt of all þe land aboute/

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 114
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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