The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
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                                  My lord and I / ben ful of oon accord
                                
                                  I made hire / to the worshipe of my lord
                                
                                  So do I / alle myne othere / creatures
                                
                                  What colour that they han / or what figures
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                                  Thus semeth me / that nature wolde seye
                                
                                  This mayde of age / twelue ȝer was and tweye
                                
                                  In which that nature / hadde swich delit
                                
                                  ffor right as she kan peynte / a lilye whit
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                                  And reed as Rose / right with swich peynture
                                
                                  She peynted hath / this noble creature
                                
                                  Er she were born / vp-oon hire lymes free
                                
                                  Where as by right / swich coloures shulde bee
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                                  And Phebus dyed hath / hire tresses grete
                                
                                  lyke to the stremes / of his burned hete
                                
                                  And if that excellent / was hir beaute
                                
                                  A thousand fold / moore vertuous was she
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                                  In hire ne lakked / no condicion
                                
                                  That is to preyse / as by discrecion
                                
                                  As wel in goost as body / chaast was she
                                
                                  ffor which she floured / in virginite
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                                  With alle humylite / and abstinence
                                
                                  With alle attemperance / and pacience
                                
                                  With mesure eke / of berynge and array
                                
                                  Discret she was / in answerynge alwey
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                                  Though she were wys Pallas / dar I seyn
                                
                                  hire facounde eke / ful wommanly and pleyn
                                
                                  Noo countrefeted termes / had she
                                
                                  To seme wys / but after hire degree
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                                  She spak / and alle hire wordes more & lesse
                                
                                  Sovnyng in vertu / and in gentillesse
                                
                                  Shamefast she was / in maydens shamefastnesse
                                
                                  Constant in herte / and euere in bisinesse
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                                  To dryue hir out / of ydel slogardye
                                
                                  Bacus had of hir mouth / right no maistrie
                                
                                  ffor wyn and ȝouthe / dooth venus encrees
                                
                                  As men in fyr / wol casten oille or grees

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 360
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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