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At night was come into that hostelry
Well nine and twenty in a company
Of sundry folk, {{alttext|by aventure y-fall
That toward Canterbury woulde ride.
The chamber, and the stables were wide,
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With him there was his son, a younge SQUIRE,
A lover, and a lusty bacheler,
With lockes {{alttext|crulle
Of twenty year of age he was I guess.
Of his stature he was of even length,
And
And he had been some time in {{alttext|chevachie
In Flanders, in Artois, and Picardie,
And borne him well,
In hope to standen in his lady's grace.
Embroider'd was he, as it were a mead
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He coulde songes make, and well indite,
Joust, and eke dance, and well pourtray and write.
So hot he loved, that by {{alttext|nightertale
He slept no more than doth the nightingale.
Courteous he was, lowly, and serviceable,
And carv'd before his father at the table.<
A YEOMAN had he, and servants no mo'
At that time, for
And he was clad in coat and hood of green.
A sheaf of peacock arrows<
Under his belt he bare full thriftily.
Well could he dress his tackle yeomanly:
His arrows drooped not with feathers low;
And in his hand he bare a mighty bow.
A nut-head<ref>A nut-head: With nut-brown hair; or, round like a nut, the hair being cut short.<
Of wood-craft {{alttext|coud
Upon his arm he bare a gay {{alttext|bracer
And by his side a sword and a buckler,
And on that other side a gay daggere,
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A Christopher on his breast of silver sheen.
An horn he bare, the baldric was of green:
A forester was he {{alttext|soothly
There was also a Nun, a PRIORESS,
That of her smiling was full simple and coy;
Her greatest oathe was but by Saint Loy;
And she was {{alttext|cleped
Full well she sang the service divine,
Entuned in her nose full seemly;
And French she spake full fair and {{alttext|fetisly
After the school of Stratford atte Bow,
For French of Paris was to her unknow.
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Well could she carry a morsel, and well keep,
That no droppe ne fell upon her breast.
In courtesy was set full much her {{alttext|lest
Her over-lippe wiped she so clean,
That in her cup there was no {{alttext|farthing
Of grease, when she drunken had her draught;
Full seemely after her meat she {{alttext|raught
And
And full pleasant, and amiable of port,
And
Of court|took pains to assume a courtly disposition}},
And to be holden {{alttext|digne
But for to speaken of her conscience,
She was so charitable and so {{alttext|pitous
She woulde weep if that she saw a mouse
Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bled.
Of smalle houndes had she, that she fed
With roasted flesh, and milk, and
But sore she wept if one of them were dead,
Or if men smote it with a {{alttext|yarde
And all was conscience and tender heart.
Full seemly her wimple y-pinched was;
Her nose {{alttext|tretis|well-formed}};
Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red;
But sickerly she had a fair forehead.
It was almost a spanne broad I trow;
For
Full {{alttext|fetis
Of small coral about her arm she bare
A pair of beades, gauded all with green;
And thereon hung a brooch of gold full sheen,
On which was first y-written a crown'd A,
And after,
Another Nun also with her had she,
[That was her chapelleine, and PRIESTES three.]
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