Ful semely aftur hir mete sche raught
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And sikurly sche was of gret disport
And ful plesant/ and amyable of port
And peyned hire to counterfete cheere
Of court and ben estatlich of manere
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And to ben holden digne of Reuerence
But for to speken of hire conscience
Sche was so charitable and so pitous
Sche wolde weepe if þat sche sawe a Mous
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Caught in a trappe if it were deed or bledde
Of smale houndes hadde sche þat sche fedde
With rostud fleissh and mylk and wastel breed
But sore wepte sche if oon of hem were deed
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Or if men smot it wiþ a ȝerde smerte
And al was conscience and tendre herte
Ful semely hire wymple I-pynched was
Hire nose streight hire eyen grey as glas
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Hire mouth ful smal and þerto softe and reed [folio 3a]
But sikurly sche hadde a fair forheed
It was almost a spanne brood I trowe
For hardily sche was not vndurgrowe
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Ful fetys was hire cloke as I was waar
Of smal coral aboute hire arme sche baar
A peire of bedes gaudid al with grene
And þer on heng a broch of gold ful schene
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On which was first I-writen a crowned A.
And after þat Amor vincit omnia.
Anothur Nonne with hire hadde sche
That was hire Chapelleyn and prestes þre
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A Monk þer was a fair for the maistrie
An out Rydere þat loved venerye
A manly man to ben an abbot able
Ful many a deynte hors hadde he in stable
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And whan he rood men might his bridel heere
Gyngle in a whistlyng wynd so cleere
And eek as lowde as doþ þe chapel belle
