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"Before the temple-dore ful soberly Dame Pees sat, with a curteyn in hir hond..."

"Before the temple-dore ful soberly Dame Pees sat, with a curteyn in hir hond..."
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"Before the temple-dore ful soberly Dame Pees sat, with a curteyn in hir hond..."

from: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer (P. 317) -  1958
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"Before the temple-dore ful soberly Dame Pees sat, with a curteyn in hir hond: And hir besyde, wonder discretly, Dame Pacience sitting ther I fond With face pale, upon an hille of sond; And alder-next, within and eek withoute, Behest and Art, and of hir folke a route." (p. 317)