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 ...

                                
                                     [6-text p 306] 
                                  
                                  Beth war / if be ensaumple of ȝoure lyuynge
                                
                                  Or by ȝoure necligence / in chastisynge
                                
                                  That they perisshe / for I dar wel seye
                                
                                  If that they doon / ȝe shul it deere a-beye
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                                  vnder a Shepherde / soft and necligent
                                
                                  The wolf / hath many a sheep and lamb to-rent
                                
                                  Suffiseth on ensample / now as heere
                                
                                  ffor I moot turne a-geyn / to my matere
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                                  ¶ This mayde / of which / I wol this tale expresse
                                
                                  So kept hir self / hir neded no Maistresse
                                
                                  ffor in hir lyuyng / maydens myghten rede
                                
                                  As in a book / euery good word / or dede
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                                  That longeth to a mayden / vertuous
                                
                                  She was so prudent / and so bountevous
                                
                                  ffor which the same out sprong / on euery syde
                                
                                  Bothe of hir beaute / and hire bounte wyde [folio 140a] 
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                                  That thurgh that lond / they preised hir echone
                                
                                  That loued Vertu / saue Envye allone
                                
                                  That sory is / of oother mennes wele [¶ Augustinus] 
                                
                                  And glad is of his sorwe / and his vnhele
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                                  The doctour / makith this discripcioun
                                
                                  This mayde vp-on a day / went in the toun
                                
                                  Toward a temple / with hir moder deere
                                
                                  As is of ȝonge maydens / the manere
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                                  ¶ Now was there thanne / a Iustice in that toun
                                
                                  That gouernour was / of that Regioun
                                
                                  And so bifel / this Iuge / his eyen caste
                                
                                  vp-on this mayde / auysynge him ful faste
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                                  As she coom forby / there as this Iuge stod
                                
                                  A-noon his herte chaunged / and his mood
                                
                                  So was he caught / with beaute of this mayde
                                
                                  And to him self / ful pryuely he sayde
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                                  This mayde shal be myn / for any man
                                
                                  A-noon the fend / in-to his herte ran
                                
                                  And taughte him sodeynly / that he by sleighte
                                
                                  The mayden to his purpos / wynne myghte

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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 362
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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