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

                                
                                  With his tepet wonden aboute his hede
                                
                                  And sche cam after in a gide of rede
                                
                                  And simkyn hadd hosen of þe same
                                
                                  Thare dorste no whiht clepen hire bot dame
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                                  Was none so hardy þat wente be þe weie
                                
                                  That dorste with hire ones rage or pleie
                                
                                  Bot if he wolde be sleine of Simkynne
                                
                                  Wiþ panade or wiþ knyf or wiþ Boydekynne
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                                  ffor Ielous folke bene perlous euer mo
                                
                                  Al-gates þei wolde here wives wenden so
                                
                                  And eke for sche was somdele smoterliche [folio 49a] 
                                
                                  Sche was as deyne as water in a diche
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                                  As ful of Hokere and of bismare
                                
                                  Hir þouht þat a lady schold spare
                                
                                  What for hire kinred and hire Nortelrie
                                
                                  That sche had lerned in the Nonnerye
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                                  A douhter had þei be-twexe hem two
                                
                                  Of twenty ȝere wiþ-outen any moo
                                
                                  Saueinge a childe þat was of halfe ȝere age
                                
                                  In cradel it ley. and was a propur page
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                                  þis wenche þikke and wele y-groue was
                                
                                  wiþ Camois nose and eyen . grei as glasse
                                
                                  wiþ buttokes brode . and brestes rounde and hihe
                                
                                  Bot rihte faire was hire here .I. wil nouht lye
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                                  The parson of þe toune for sche was so faire
                                
                                  In purpos was to make hire his hayre
                                
                                  Boþe of his Catel and his Mesuage
                                
                                  And strange he maade it for hire Mariage
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                                  His purpos was to be-stowe hire hye
                                
                                  In to somme worþi blode of Auncestrie
                                
                                  ffor holy cherche goode mot be despended
                                
                                  On holy cherche blode þat is descended
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                                  Ther-fore he wolde his holy blode honoure
                                
                                  þouhe þat holy cherche scholde deuoure
                                
                                  Grete soken haþe þis meller oute of doute
                                
                                  Wiþ wete and malte of al þe lande aboute

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Title: The Lansdowne ms 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 N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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